Year: 2021
I have been listening to the new BBC podcast hosted by Steve Pinker ‘Think Twice’. The podcast features Sig Mejdal former NASA engineer and assistant manager of the American baseball team Baltimore Orioles. He is talking about how algorithmic knowledge and expert knowledge can be combined in sport. Talking about his experience with baseball, he […]
In a recent feature for the Guardian, David Goldblatt looks at EURO20 teams and identifies clusters of different typologies of diverse teams from the racial diverse teams representing the colonial empire past to those reflecting contemporary refugee migration, contrasting these to the more “monotone” teams such as Scotland. With this piece I want to expand […]
With this post I take a “femquant” approach to my study of data science in football. Following Nikita Taparia’s lead I try to articulate in more detail what it means that women are being left behind the sport data revolution. Is there something different in the women’s game? Two of the last three first halves […]
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