Description for Baseball Hacks
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 228 x 30. Weight in Grams: 666.
"Baseball Hacks" isn't your typical baseball book - it's a book about how to watch, research, and understand baseball. It's an instruction manual for the free baseball databases. It's a cookbook for baseball research. Every part of this book is designed to teach baseball fans how to do something. In short, it's a how-to book - one that will increase your enjoyment and knowledge of the game. So much of the way baseball is played today hinges upon interpreting statistical data. Players are acquired based on their performance in statistical categories that ownership deems most important. Managers make in-game decisions ... Read more
"Baseball Hacks" isn't your typical baseball book - it's a book about how to watch, research, and understand baseball. It's an instruction manual for the free baseball databases. It's a cookbook for baseball research. Every part of this book is designed to teach baseball fans how to do something. In short, it's a how-to book - one that will increase your enjoyment and knowledge of the game. So much of the way baseball is played today hinges upon interpreting statistical data. Players are acquired based on their performance in statistical categories that ownership deems most important. Managers make in-game decisions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Sebastopol, United States
ISBN
9780596009427
SKU
V9780596009427
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Joseph Alder
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 ... Read more
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