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Postgres Redux: File Prep and Data Ingestion
Postgres Redux: File Prep and Data Ingestion
Creating our new local database
Dan Watson
Mar 22, 2020
NBA_API to the Rescue
NBA_API to the Rescue
We’re back and we have data!
Dan Watson
Mar 21, 2020
Set Up For Success: Creating Tables and Loading Data in Postgres
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!
Dan Watson
Sep 15, 2019
Prepping for Postgres: Installation and File Preparation Using Bash
Prepping for Postgres: Installation and File Preparation Using Bash
Postgres is a powerful free database that will speed up our analyses
Dan Watson
Sep 15, 2019
Showtime: Pulling Multiple Seasons of Player Stats with NBA_Py
Showtime: Pulling Multiple Seasons of Player Stats with NBA_Py
Pulling game logs from 2012–13 to present
Dan Watson
Aug 7, 2019
Bonus Post: NBA_py Functions Workbook Now Available
Bonus Post: NBA_py Functions Workbook Now Available
Get comfortable with nba_py before we ramp up our data collection
Dan Watson
Jul 31, 2019
Move Over Scraping: Pulling NBA Data with NBA_py
Move Over Scraping: Pulling NBA Data with NBA_py
Ramping up data collection with a user-friendly python package
Dan Watson
Jul 26, 2019
Fast and Easy Plotting with Matplotlib
Fast and Easy Plotting with Matplotlib
Visualizing Harden’s stats with python’s most popular plotting library
Dan Watson
Jul 25, 2019
Pandas Makes Analysis a Layup: Grouping, Pivoting, and Plotting
Pandas Makes Analysis a Layup: Grouping, Pivoting, and Plotting
Find meaningful distinctions in NBA stats with pandas
Dan Watson
Jul 23, 2019
Cleaning Flat Files and Calculating Basic NBA Stats with Pandas
Cleaning Flat Files and Calculating Basic NBA Stats with Pandas
Load, clean, and manipulate flat files to calculate NBA stats
Dan Watson
Jul 21, 2019
Intro to Virtual Environments and Scraping NBA Data with BeautifulSoup
Intro to Virtual Environments and Scraping NBA Data with BeautifulSoup
Learn the basics of pulling and manipulating data from the web
Dan Watson
Jul 20, 2019
Important Non-Basketball Post: Setting Up GitHub
Important Non-Basketball Post: Setting Up GitHub
Learn to save, track, and share your code with GitHub!
Dan Watson
Jul 20, 2019
Welcome to Hardwood Convergence
Welcome to Hardwood Convergence
Setting a baseline before learning basketball analytics, step-by-step
Dan Watson
Jul 16, 2019
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