DATA-DRIVEN BY DREW MOSER
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r. Stefan Szymanski, professor of Sport Management, is doing something he has dreamed about since the day he started at U-M. He’s leading a massive open online course (MOOC) on using Python programming for sports data analytics.
According to Szymanski, data analytics has been the biggest revolution in the sporting industry since his career began. The course’s main objective is for users to employ sports analytics to understand team performance. “What we are doing is showing them the datasets and then how to process those numbers working with Python,” he said. There are five courses in the sports analytics specialization, which is a collaboration between the School of Kinesiology and the School of Information. In addition to Szymanski, the team consists of Dr. Wenche Wang, assistant professor of Sport Management; Dr. Peter Bodary, clinical assistant professor of Applied Exercise Science and Movement Science; Dr. Youngho Park, Sport Management lecturer; and Dr. Christopher Brooks, assistant professor of Information.
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| MOVEMENT | FALL 2020
New online sports data analytics course is free and open to the public
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