Baseball Hacks by Joseph Adler
Talking about how to watch, research, and understand baseball, this book shows how easy it is to get data, process it, and use it to understand baseball. It lists many sources for contemporary and historical baseball data, and explains how to load it into a database for analysis. It then introduces statistical tools for understanding data.
Joe Adler received both his undergraduate and master's degrees from MIT in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. After spending a few years as a management consultant doing risk analysis for banks and credit card companies, he now works as a researcher at Verisign, where he does data mining and statistical analysis work on hundreds of gigabytes of security, naming, and telecom data. When he's not doing statistics professionally, he spends hours every day watching baseball on television, following standings, and reading about baseball. As a hard-core fan, he can't help thinking about how to apply statistical thinking when watching baseball. If you suffer the same affliction and want to talk shop, send Joe email at baseballhacks@gmail.com.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780596009427 |
| ISBN 10 | 0596009429 |
| Title | Baseball Hacks |
| Author | Joseph Adler |
| Series | Hacks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | O'Reilly Media |
| Year published | 2006-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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