Data Analytics Enters Sports
When data science emerged, many believed that it would be a cup of tea for only those who were used to being confined in a single cubicle of an office, crunching away at the numbers in front of a blank computer, all day long. But it may seem that data science as a field has proved them all wrong. While the use of this concept is more often done for optimization of various process in which programming and coding plays a huge role, but at the same time this is also true that today, data science has begun to play a bigger role in the various fields like healthcare, science, military and so on. The newest to be added to this ever growing list is the field of sports. The United States Of America’s National Basketball league or as it is popularly known, NBA has been one of the first sports leagues to having granted the permission for the entry of big data science and data analytics into the insides of the locker rooms. This is ...