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Winning First
The first Ashes Test was completed at Edgebaston in Birmingham on 5 August (link). Australia won on the final day of the test by 251 runs. Australia scored 487 runs in their second innings. England...
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Back in 2013, David Brooks wrote in the New York Times (link): If you asked me to describe the rising philosophy of the day, I’d say it is data-ism. We now have the ability to gather huge amounts of...
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Networks
My son, Sam, has just written a post about systems and networks (link). I found the post really interesting in a paternal sense and an epistemological sense. The paternal part of me is delighted to...
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Connectivity, Invisibility, Awareness, and Agency
Katrin Etzrodt and Sven Engesser (2019) have been looking at ubiquitous tools, connected things and intelligent agents (link). Their paper seeks to disentangle the terminology used in discussions of...
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R U OK? Day 2019
It is R U OK Day on 12 September. R U OK?’s vision is a world where we’re all connected. Their mission is to inspire and empower everyone to meaningfully connect with people around them and support...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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#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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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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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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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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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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