#416: Open Source Sports Analytics with PySport

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

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4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

If you're looking for fun data sets for learning, for teaching, maybe a conference talk, or even if you're just really into them, sports offers up a continuous stream of rich data that many people can relate to. Yet, accessing that data can be tricky. Sometimes it's locked away in obscure file formats. Other times, the data exists but without a clear API to access it. On this episode, we talk about PySport - something of an awesome list of a wide range of libraries (mostly but not all Python) for accessing a wide variety of sports data from the NFL, NBA, F1, and more. We have Koen Vossen, maintainer of PySport to talk through some of the more popular projects.

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0:00.0	If you're looking for fun datasets, for learning, for teaching, maybe a conference talk,
0:04.6	or even if you're just really into them, Sports offers up a continuous stream of rich data
0:09.9	that many people can relate to.
0:11.9	Yet, accessing that data can be tricky.
0:14.5	Sometimes it's locked away in obscure file formats.
0:18.1	Other times, the data exists, but without a clear API to access it.
0:22.6	On this episode, we talk about Pysport, something of an awesome list of a wide range of libraries,
0:28.9	mostly but not all Python, for accessing a wide variety of sports data from the NFL, NBA,
0:35.5	F1, and more. We have Kuhn Vassin, the founder of PyeSport,
0:39.5	to talk through some of the more popular projects.
0:42.5	This is Talk Python, episode 416, recorded May 11th, 2023.
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