Super Netball, Worm Charts and R Programming
Dr Alice Sweeting joins Patrick Ward and Ellis Hughes on a TidyX screencast.
In this video Dr Alice Sweeting joins Patrick Ward and Ellis Hughes on a TidyX screencast. Patrick works in the research & development department at the Seattle Seahawks, and Ellis is a statistical programmer at the Fred Hutch Cancer Research Centre. Together they have a vast array of knowledge and experience in R programming, and host a weekly screencast where they explore real-life examples of R code with guests from around the world.
Throughout the episode Alice outlines the common techniques she uses in the R programming language to process and visualise data, and then takes the audience through a worked example where she draws upon data from three different data sources to create a worm chart of a super netball game! At the end of the talk, Alice provides some advise for anyone looking to get started in either sports analytics or R programming.
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