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Introduction to Hockey Analytics
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Introduction to Hockey Analytics

Building Your First Hockey Dashboard in Microsoft Power BI
Highest Rated
Created byData Punk
Last updated 3/2024
English
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What you'll learn

  • Define team and player statistics for a hockey analytics dashboard
  • Use web-based resources to source hockey data for those statistics
  • Program with Python to retrieve and normalize the data
  • Design and build a hockey dashboard using Microsoft Power BI

Course content

8 sections • 10 lectures • 2h 16m total length

  • Welcome to this Course1:02

    Explore a two-hour introduction to hockey analytics through seven lectures, with offline resources to learn at your own pace, and a quick overview of the seven lectures.

  • Introduction to the Course2:55

    Learn to track teams and players with Power BI dashboards, using a Python-based data pipeline and best practices to visualize hockey analytics and tell a data-driven story.

  • Required Software2:01

    Identify the required software for hockey analytics, including Power BI, PyCharm Community Edition, and Excel for CSVs, plus free CSV tools like LibreOffice, Google Sheets, and OpenRefine, with installation guidance.

Requirements

  • Some beginner programming experience is helpful, but not necessary.

Description

This course is intended for those of you who are passionate about sports and hockey and want to learn the basics of hockey analytics and dashboard design with Power BI. If you really enjoy watching hockey, but have been unsure as to how you get started with hockey analytics and creating dashboards for your personal or professional projects, then this course is for you!

The goals of the course are to introduce you to hockey analytics, help you design your first Microsoft Power BI dashboard, provide an overview of key hockey statistics at the team and player level, show you how you can manually and programmatically access hockey data, and use team and player performance hockey data to create your first hockey dashboard.

Through several lectures, we'll teach you the basics of Microsoft Power BI, raw and calculated hockey statistics for player and team performance, the process to design and create a team performance dashboard in Power BI, and give you tips and tricks for evolving your first hockey analytics project into a professional project.  By the end of the course, you'll have created your very own Team Performance dashboard and will be ready to tackle other hockey analytics projects (such as coaching dashboard, team and player tracking dashboards, fantasy hockey dashboards, and so on).

Who this course is for:

  • Hockey enthusiasts who want to learn about hockey analytics and dashboard creation

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