Analyzing Play-by-Play Data

Data Science and R Consulting Business
occasionally Python

Columbia Adjunct Professor
World's largest R Meetup
NY R Conference

Best Selling R Book
statistical programming language

Here today because of football

highly thought of

Statistician

trained as a statistician
Fink

Data Scientist

now a Data Scientist
not just traditional statistics
machine learning
data mining
visualization

Drew Conway's Venn Diagram
Not listed, but data viz is so important
not that kind of hacking

Math & Statistics

\[ f(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}\sigma}e^{\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma^2}} \]

Regression
Decision Trees
Random Forests
Clustering
Neural Networks

Substantive Experience