My Learning Journey through Sports Informatics and Analytics

Masters of High Performance Sport

An independent review/e-portfolio which examines my perspectives on content delivered in this Masters unit.

What does this mean?

Informatics and Analytics

As this course comes to an end, I thought it would be prudent to provide a recap of what I have learnt throughout the semester. Theme 1:...

"Show only desired behaviours". Peter Dowrick's words are the ones which resonate with me most. To desire to be or do something is to...

Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD): "Knowledge discovery is the nontrivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown, and...

"Words have meanings: some words, however, also have a 'feel'. The word 'community' is one of them. It feels good: whatever the word...

"Data comes in all different shapes, sizes, and flavors. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution to collecting, understanding, and...

"Unless something can be measured, it cannot be improved. So we are on a quest to collect as many personal tools that will assist us in...

Undoubtedly, the program 'R' is the area that I have struggled with the most in this unit. I would consider myself to have a strong...

The Data Landscape: "Have you ever noticed how strangely bucolic the world of data is?" - Maciej Ceglowski (2015) Bucolic. I had...

"Ultimately, data visualisation is more than complex software or the prettying up of spreadsheets...It's about the most ancient of social...

"Provide objective data to coaches so that they can make informed decisions" - Jocelyn Mara Performance Monitoring is an increasingly...

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