Geometry and Data Science of Sports Analytics

3 Credits

Students will learn as well as gain hands-on experience in geometrical aspects and data analysis aspects of sports performance analytics. The course will involve programming via Python as well as other software. Topics may include JSON, using API to gather and analyze big data sets arising in sports analytics, detecting geometrical patterns in data, analyzing motion tracking data. Interactions between mathematics, statistics, hands-on programming and geometry of data sets will be emphasized.