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Postgres Redux: File Prep and Data Ingestion

Creating our new local database

Mar 22, 2020

Postgres Redux: File Prep and Data Ingestion

Mar 22, 2020

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Hardwood Convergence

NBA_API to the Rescue

We’re back and we have data!

Mar 21, 2020

NBA_API to the Rescue

Mar 21, 2020

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Hardwood Convergence

Set Up For Success: Creating Tables and Loading Data in Postgres

After this post, we’ll have a database filled with basketball data to run analyses and applications!

Sep 16, 2019

Set Up For Success: Creating Tables and Loading Data in Postgres

Sep 16, 2019

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Hardwood Convergence

Prepping for Postgres: Installation and File Preparation Using Bash

Postgres is a powerful free database that will speed up our analyses

Sep 15, 2019

Prepping for Postgres: Installation and File Preparation Using Bash

Sep 15, 2019

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Showtime: Pulling Multiple Seasons of Player Stats with NBA_Py

Pulling game logs from 2012–13 to present

Aug 7, 2019

Showtime: Pulling Multiple Seasons of Player Stats with NBA_Py

Aug 7, 2019

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Bonus Post: NBA_py Functions Workbook Now Available

Get comfortable with nba_py before we ramp up our data collection

Aug 1, 2019

Bonus Post: NBA_py Functions Workbook Now Available

Aug 1, 2019

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Move Over Scraping: Pulling NBA Data with NBA_py

Ramping up data collection with a user-friendly python package

Jul 26, 2019

Move Over Scraping: Pulling NBA Data with NBA_py

Jul 26, 2019

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Hardwood Convergence

Fast and Easy Plotting with Matplotlib

Visualizing Harden’s stats with python’s most popular plotting library

Jul 25, 2019

Fast and Easy Plotting with Matplotlib

Jul 25, 2019

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Hardwood Convergence

Pandas Makes Analysis a Layup: Grouping, Pivoting, and Plotting

Find meaningful distinctions in NBA stats with pandas

Jul 24, 2019

This is how easy pandas makes analysis

Jul 24, 2019

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Hardwood Convergence

Cleaning Flat Files and Calculating Basic NBA Stats with Pandas

Load, clean, and manipulate flat files to calculate NBA stats

Jul 21, 2019

Pandas for Basketball

Jul 21, 2019

Dan Watson

Dan Watson

Data nerd, basketball fanatic, and ice cream connoisseur. Health care analytics by day, basketball analytics by night. https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielkwatson

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