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Changing managers in football
Introduction Why do football clubs sack their managers? Eni Aluko has written a post in The Guardian about sacking football managers (link). In it she proposes that sacking managers does not work. She...
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Analytics: theory and practice
Stephen Downes provided a link to Dominic Wyse’s presentation (link) in his newsletter today (link). In his presentation as President of the British Educational Research Association, Dominic looks at...
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A pedagogy of small
Tanya Elias, Laura Ritchie, Geoffrey Gevalt, and Kate Bowles (2020) (link) have written about the pedagogy of small. Stephen Downes shared the link to their University of Calgary paper in his daily...
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Observation
The National Gallery of Australia is holding a Matisse and Picasso exhibition at the moment (link). The introduction to the exhibition noted: Matisse & Picasso is the first exhibition in Australia...
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Tactical Insights Day
Leicester City will host a Tactical Insights Conference at the King Power Stadium (link) on Wednesday 19 February, 2020. This is the second Insights conference at the club. The first conference This...
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Analytics’ Notes
Introduction Like most people, I receive pull newsletters in my in box. I find these profoundly helpful. They often contain news of analytics that become tweets (link) or the stimulus for a blog post...
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Digital Dexterity
Introduction VALA is holding its 20th bicentennial conference in Melbourne from 11-13 February 2020 (link). The theme of the conference is Focus on the Future. VALA – Libraries, Technology and the...
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Out of it
I have been having some treatment in hospital that has meant I have been out of action for the best part of two weeks. It is the first time in my professional life that I have been away from the web...
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Alexis on coaching
Alexis Lebedew (link) has been thinking about coaching. His aim is with to come to a definition of what distinguishes high performance behaviour. Alexis has prepared a Google Form for his search...
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#WBBL: Scoring and Strike Rates
Two recent games (43 and 44) in this season’s #WBBL (link) raised for me some interesting issues about game management. My data for the tournament indicate that the median winning score is 147 runs...
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Curating a sport informatics and analytics open education resource
Last month, Bradley Boehmke and Brandon Greenwell published a guide to machine learning with R, it was titled Hands-On Machine Learning with R. I have included a link to this publication on the...
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A longing for the north
Fires are raging in northern New South Wales. The ABC reports that “more than 850,000 hectares of land have been razed since the start of this year’s bushfire season” (link). A catastrophic warning is...
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Working with data in sport
Introduction There is a lot of discussion at the moment about data analysis and its role in sport. In addition to social media conversations about data, a number of newsletters this week have raised...
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Catherine
Catherine Ordway graduated as a PhD scholar at the University of Canberra’s Graduation ceremony on Wednesday, 9 October. For her and her family it was one of those memorable days. I was delighted that...
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One of those memorable days
The University of Canberra held its graduation ceremony at the Australian Institute of Sport Arena on Wednesday, 9 October 2019 (link). It is a memorable day for everyone concerned and a day for...
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Cédric’s introduction to R ggplot
Cédric Scherer (link) has written a delightful guide to ggplot. His post is titled A ggplot2 Tutorial for Beautiful Plotting in R (link). I worked through his post by looking at some of the data from...
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Change and Leadership
My recent posts have looked at changes in roles in sporting organisations. I am struck by the diversity of roles in these organisations. What is becoming evident to me is the role leaders will play in...
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Technical Direction
The Daily Mirror reports that “Manchester United are stepping up their search for a new technical director” (link). The search for United’s first ever Technical Director has gone on for over a year....
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Three posts about analysis and analytics
I have had some time to think about meta issues in performance analysis and analytics. I think this is an exciting and transformational time for this epistemological and ontological domain. My three...
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Describing what we do
In conversations about people involved in data analysis, one of my colleagues in an institute of sport observed that “the biggest challenge is how we develop and mentor these people”. I see this as a...
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