How The NBA Uses Data & Analytics

In my opinion, basketball is a wonderful sport, you can tell a lot about a person from the way s/he played basketball, things like did s/he hog the ball ? Did s/he show off on the court ? Was the person afraid to shoot and miss ? Did the person lie about being fouled? On top of that it’s just fun to play and great exercise !

Also in my opinion Data Analytics/Science is an amazing popular and growing field, so much so that it was named “the sexiest job of the 21st century”. Data science is a mixture of statistics, data analysis, machine learning, computer science, and knowledge of the data / business that aims to provide insights and understanding from data. So, when you put these two fields together, you get an article written by yours truly.

Data Science and Data Analytics have completely changed the NBA landscape, so much so that the league now runs a yearly Hackathon, this allows them to get some new great ideas and find new data analyst with talent.

The Golden state warriors even credit their success to their analyst. You may have seen the coach “Steve Kerr” rest some…