Sports Analytics

<p>As the analysis of big datasets in sports performance becomes a more entrenched part of the sporting landscape so the value of sport scientists and analysts with formal training in data analytics grows. <i>Sports Analytics: Analysis Visualisation and Decision Making in Sports Performance </i> provides the most authoritative and comprehensive guide to the use of analytics in sport and its application in sports performance coaching talent identification and sports medicine available.</p><p>Employing an approach-based structure and integrating problem-based learning throughout the text the book clearly defines the difference between analytics and analysis and goes on to explain and illustrate methods including:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Interactive visualisation</li> <p> </p> <li>Simulation and modelling</li> <p> </p> <li>Geospatial data analysis</li> <p> </p> <li>Spatiotemporal analysis</li> <p> </p> <li>Machine learning</li> <p> </p> <li>Genomic data analysis</li> <p> </p> <li>Social network analysis</li> </ul><p>Offering a mixed-methods case study chapter no other book offers the same level of scientific grounding or practical application in sports data analytics. <i>Sports Analytics</i> is essential reading for all students of sports analytics and useful supplementary reading for students and professionals in talent identification and development sports performance analysis sports medicine and applied computer science.</p>