Data Analysis for Sports Intelligence
Description
This module introduces students to the general concepts of statistics and data analysis and the role of data-generated insight for sports performance, participation and business functions. It will provide the students with the appropriate tools to generate, summarise, visualise and analyse sports-related datasets and report the results in an appropriate format. It provides the students with the ability to apply appropriate statistical techniques to data sets gathered during project work and also to comment on, and rate techniques used in existing studies.
Learning Outcomes
Explain and critique the theory, growth and application of data-based intelligence in sports performance, sports participation and sports business
Ethically apply appropriate skills and techniques in the areas of data set generation, data mining, dataset evaluation and classification for participation, performance and other sports related data.
Use appropriate techniques to visualise sports participation, performance and business data.
Describe and justify the selection and application of appropriate statistical techniques for the analysis of sports related data.
Use appropriate software to automate the mining, analysis and visualisation of sports related data.