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About the Course

This course provides an introduction to using Python to analyze team performance in sports. Learners will discover a variety of techniques that can be used to represent sports data and how to extract narratives based on these analytical techniques. The main focus of the introduction will be on the use of regression analysis to analyze team and player performance data, using examples drawn from the National Football League (NFL), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Hockey League (NHL), the English Premier LEague (EPL, soccer) and the Indian Premier League (IPL, cricket). This course does not simply explain methods and techniques, it enables the learner to apply them to sports datasets of interest so that they can generate their own results, rather than relying on the data processing performed by others. As a consequence the learning will be empowered to explore their own ideas about sports team performance, test them out using the data, and so become a producer of sports analytics rather than a consumer. While the course materials have been developed using Python, code has also been produced to derive all of the results in R, for those who prefer that environment....

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KY

Aug 26, 2021

Great course. Although this course focuses on sports analysis, the analyzing process I learned from it can apply to any other areas of analysis.

AM

Jan 16, 2023

Complete and accessible course for everybody who wants to experience how statistics and econometrics can be used in sports contexts.

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By Kevin . H

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Sep 21, 2021

This course does a very poor job of actually teaching the concepts presented in it. There is a lot of "copy/paste" instruction, with almost no explanation of what is being done or why, at either the technical level (i.e. why are calling this function or method) or a the theoretical level (i.e. why a visualization or data interaction is useful). It does touch on a many basic foundation for interacting with data (which is the only reason I'm not giving it 1 star), but from an actual instruction perspective, this the worst courses I have finished on Coursera.

By Robert B

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Jun 14, 2021

Great course! The lectures focus on the hands-on application of analytics techniques; with slides of theory and math kept to a minimum. The quizzes are of easy to moderate difficulty, and help reinforce the concepts learnt in the lecture. The material of the course will be of interest to anyone who enjoys extracting insights from data, even if you aren't much of a sports fan. I’m excited for the next course in the specialization!

By Daniel G S

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Jun 14, 2021

Overall it was a good course. It covers the basic of Sports Analytics and it has a lot of good examples and datasets.

By Dan

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Feb 17, 2023

The course content was intriguing. However, it definitely needs updating. There are times where assignment instructions are incomplete, or there are discrepancies between what is shown in the lecture and what is in the notebooks. There are also times where what is in the assignment quizzes doesn't match up with the actual data in the assignment notebooks.

I didn't get a lot out of some of the weeks, as it felt like the instructor was just reading word for word what was written in the notebooks, not adding any additional commentary or explanation. Furthermore, I wish they would have dove deeper into some of the statistics and math behind some of the concepts they showed. They would introduce a concept a lot of times, but not explain what it meant or how it related to other concepts we had learned.

By Zachary A M

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Jun 12, 2022

Experience in Python is needed.

By Cy L

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Aug 4, 2021

Directions are not clear when working on programing assignments and quizzes.

By Manuel F P T

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Jun 23, 2021

Me parece un excelente curso para un primer vistazo sobre como analizar el rendimiento tanto individual como de equipo en deportes, me pareció muy interesante mezclar habilidades de ciencia de los datos junto con mis gustos por los deportes.

By Mike H

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Mar 8, 2022

An excellent way to get hands-on experience exploring sports data in Python/R

By Henri

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Sep 5, 2021

Great material and well paced for people working. One instructor is a bit green though.

By JOSE E L E

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Jun 12, 2023

IN GENERAL TERMS I LIKE IT ALL, WITH THE EXCEPT THAT I COULD NOT FINISH THE SPECIALIZED PROGRAM BECAUSE I DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE QUESTIONS OF COURSE NUMBER 5, THE TEACHER ASKS THINGS THAT HE DOESN'T EXPLAIN, AND WHAT IT EXPLAINES DOES NOT DO IT WITH CLARITY !!!

I AM NOT AN EXPERT IN PYTHON, BUT LITTLE BY LITTLE I WAS LEARNING SOMETHING NEW, BUT COURSE NUMBER 5 SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE.

I AM AN EXPERT IN ANALYZING SPORTS STATISTICS, AND I TAKEN THE SPECIALIZED PROGRAM BECAUSE I WANTED TO LEARN NEW THINGS THAT WILL HELP ME IN MY JOB; AND IN COURSE 4 I LEARNED MANY NEW AND VERY INTERESTING THINGS; BUT I COULDN'T FINISH THE SPECIALIZATION BECAUSE COURSE NUMBER 5 IS ANTI-PEDAGOGICAL

IF YOU ARE NOT AN EXPERT IN PYTHON I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS COURSE !!!

By Ka P ( Y

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Aug 27, 2021

Great course. Although this course focuses on sports analysis, the analyzing process I learned from it can apply to any other areas of analysis.

By Alessandro D M

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Jan 17, 2023

Complete and accessible course for everybody who wants to experience how statistics and econometrics can be used in sports contexts.

By Kwanghyun J

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Jul 6, 2021

Best course to interact with data representation programming and libraries, especially for the great sports fan.

By Alex B

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Oct 26, 2023

Fantastic introduction to Python, engaging and I enjoyed that lots of different sports were discussed.

By Deleted A

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Jun 13, 2021

I've never been more excited of doing a regression model in my life! Amazing content.

By Gabriel C C

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Nov 4, 2022

excelente forma de aprender

By Colin M

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Jan 30, 2022

Great foundational course!

By Aromal K

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Aug 4, 2021

verygood

By Michał N

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Dec 26, 2021

Great !

By Hagar S

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Sep 7, 2021

perfect

By ERR B R J M

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Sep 15, 2022

Good!

By Sibi

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Sep 6, 2023

Really great and informative course, loved the material and the assignments!

By viswesh n

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Aug 28, 2022

Excellent course on how data analytics can be used in the world of sports.

By Aymen B

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Apr 6, 2022

I learned a lot from this course

By Ali B B

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Jan 16, 2022

Some lectures seem to be unnecessary as they are repetitions of same concepts on different datasets.