Review: Football Analytics with Python & R

Posted on August 24, 2023 by George Mount in Data science | 0 Comments

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Look what touched down in my mailbox today…

_Football Analytics with Python & R_ by Eric Eager and Richard Erickson. I had the pleasure to be a tech reviewer for this book and recommend it to anyone interested in, as the subtitle suggests, learning data science through the lens of sports.

What I particularly love about this title is that it stands squarely on the three pillars of the famous “Data Science Venn Diagram:”

1. Math & stats — dive inside the mechanics of linear regression, principal components analysis and other fundamental data science techniques

2. Hacking skills — get up and running with Python and R from scratch and learn how to gather and clean your data from a variety of football analytics data sources.

3. Substantive expertise — learn how to tell a story with the data and weave it into the greater context of what you’re looking to explore (Just like they did in _Moneyball_ )!