What you'll learn
Define team and player statistics for a hockey analytics dashboard
Use web-based resources to source hockey data for those statistics
Program with Python to retrieve and normalize the data
Design and build a hockey dashboard using Microsoft Power BI
Requirements
Some beginner programming experience is helpful, but not necessary.
Description
This course is intended for the hobbyist who is passionate about hockey and is now looking to improve their skills around hockey analytics. If you really enjoy watching hockey, but have been unsure as to how you get started with hockey analytics and creating dashboards for your personal projects or needs, then this course is for you! The goals of the course are to1) introduce you to Microsoft Power BI, 2) provide an overview of key hockey statistics at the team and player level, 3) show you how you can manually and programmatically access hockey data, and 4) use that team and player performance hockey data to create your very first hockey dashboard. Through several lectures, we'll teach you the basics of Microsoft Power BI, raw and calculated hockey statistics for player and team performance, the process to design and create a team performance dashboard in Power BI, and give you tips and tricks for evolving your first hockey analytics project into a professional project.  By the end of the course, you'll have created your very own Team Performance dashboard and will be ready to tackle other hockey analytics projects (such as coaching dashboard, team and player tracking dashboards, fantasy hockey dashboards, and so on).
Who this course is for
Hockey enthusiasts who want to build their first hockey analytics dashboards
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