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Alok Pattani - Google Cloud
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English - October 15, 2020 13:41 - 53 minutes - 98.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsSoccer Sports Football Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Alok Pattani is a Data Science Developer Advocate for Google Cloud, which
partners with sports organizations including Major League Baseball and the
NCAA. He is also a consultant for the Dallas Cowboys, and he was previously
a founding member of ESPN’s sports analytics department. In this
conversation, Alok will talk about…
- What Google Cloud is and what he does for them
- How Google works with MLB and the NCAA
- BigQuery and how he uses it
- How the volume of sports data has changed in recent years
- What he does for the Cowboys
- What NFL teams are doing in the analytics space and how NGS data has
changed that
- Advice for students looking to get into sports analytics
- Why he chose sports and ESPN out of college
- Developing and communicating metrics at ESPN
- Researching LeBron James’ The Decision show at ESPN
- How he combines his love for data with his love for ice cream
Show links
- Follow Alok on Twitter: @AlokPattani
- MLB Film Room powered by Google Cloud
- Alok’s white paper on schedule-adjusted metrics in NCAA basketball (page
92)
- Using BigQuery to simulate March Madness
- Explaining ESPN’s Total QBR
- 2011 notes on the Mavericks and Dan Crawford
- Paul Carr’s Google presentation on effectively communicating data
- Wentworth Homemade Ice Cream
- Follow @TruMediaSports on Twitter
Alok Pattani is a Data Science Developer Advocate for Google Cloud, which partners with sports organizations including Major League Baseball and the NCAA. He is also a consultant for the Dallas Cowboys, and he was previously a founding member of ESPN’s sports analytics department. In this conversation, Alok will talk about…
- What Google Cloud is and what he does for them
- How Google works with MLB and the NCAA
- BigQuery and how he uses it
- How the volume of sports data has changed in recent years
- What he does for the Cowboys
- What NFL teams are doing in the analytics space and how NGS data has changed that
- Advice for students looking to get into sports analytics
- Why he chose sports and ESPN out of college
- Developing and communicating metrics at ESPN
- Researching LeBron James’ The Decision show at ESPN
- How he combines his love for data with his love for ice cream
Show links
- Follow Alok on Twitter: @AlokPattani
- MLB Film Room powered by Google Cloud
- Alok’s white paper on schedule-adjusted metrics in NCAA basketball (page 92)
- Using BigQuery to simulate March Madness
- Explaining ESPN’s Total QBR
- 2011 notes on the Mavericks and Dan Crawford
- Paul Carr’s Google presentation on effectively communicating data
- Wentworth Homemade Ice Cream
- Follow @TruMediaSports on Twitter
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