Sports Analytics & Visualization

Catalog description

This course will examine the importance of numbers in the world of sports and computer-generated visualizations. Students will use contemporary tools to organize, scrape, clean, and present data in a way that synthesizes numerical information and packages it in a way that a general audience can consume. Students will delve into player, team, and league stats as well as the numbers around the business of sports and how to use data as a sports reporting tool.