Can we choose sport? An end to end Machine Learning Process

Swetank Pathak
Analytics Vidhya
Published in
5 min readJul 8, 2021

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When we are in school we are getting report cards and depending upon the performance in various subjects we are going to select our future subjects. An individual subjects marks have a huge impact on our future endeavours. Isn’t it fascinating if you could able to choose sports depending upon the physical fitness parameters? It is a dream of every child to become Virat Kohli or L Messi or C Ronaldo and make the country proud.

Approach:

The human body comprises various systems such as the musculoskeletal system, nervous system, cardiovascular system, respiratory system and many more on which many complex mechanisms occur through actions of enzymes and catalysts resulting in the production of the humongous amount of data. This mechanism goes on without any sort of interpretation so now you could imagine how much data is coming every second from the human body.

As a sports science if you could think rationally about data critical for that particular sport then you could relate those data to particular sports demand.

The advancement of technology in the field of sports enables us to get data in various forms whether it be intrinsic data (inside the human body) such as blood tests. DNA test, hormones, physical fitness test, fat percentage, heart rate, et Cetra and extrinsic (outside the human body) such as climate condition, ground type, how many runs scored? how many goals scored? et Cetra. It is with the subject matter expert that they…

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Swetank Pathak
Analytics Vidhya

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