About
My career is typical for a twenty-first century worker:
I primarily work in Python, but take an interest in things beyond that - the Typescript site you're reading this on, for example. The Projects page gives a sense of where my curiousities lie, although my day-to-day involves more API development and data engineering too.
It's all a case of right place, right time. In 2013/2014 I fell into the crowd of people on Twitter delving into football stats. I began blogging, within a few years wrote for renowned site Statsbomb (on Sean Dyche's Burnley), and in 2019 began a football analytics newsletter.
I've written about understanding AI, 'possession adjusting' statistics, labelling unlabelled data, football analytics history, why 'ball-in-play time' measures had no sensible grounding, and how much we actually understand football.
The number of data providers whose data I've worked with in some capacity currently stands at 10. In alphabetical order: Impect, Metrica Sports, Opta, Ortec, Second Spectrum, Skillcorner, Sportlogiq, StatsBomb, Strategem, Wyscout. Sadly, the number of analytics conferences I've attended stands at just 3: Opta Pro Forum, StatsBomb, Training Ground Guru.
You can think analytically without using data, and you can use data without thinking analytically.
-- 'What we talk about when we talk about analytics', Get Goalside