Play Data, Play Ball!

Speaker

Summit Suen /English

Tags

#datascience, #sabermetrics, #baseball

Abstract

Have you ever notice that how many numbers had been collected and recorded during a sports game? Not only practice makes perfect; for modern sports players, numbers plays an even important role in improving their performance. This talk will bring a brief introduction of sports data analysis to you, and hands-on practice. - Introduction to Sabermetrics / Mathletics / Money ball - Play baseball data (not only R, now with python) - A simple practice: Let's explore MLB/CPBL data!

About Speaker


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More than 5 years of experience in scientific research, with well-trained mathematical modeling and statistical analysis skills. And 2+ years of comprehensive hands-on experience developing data products/applications (academic as well as industrial), including enterprise products and volunteer open data projects. Rich practices on Parallel computing, Distributed system, Virtual container (Docker), Cloud platform, Machine learning, Data mining and Data visualization. Also an open data and open source enthusiast, actively volunteering for related local communities.

Personal Link

http://tw.linkedin.com/in/suensummit

Twitter

@SummitSuen

Organization/Company

Drawpie Design

Job title

Data Scientist