555: Sports Analytics and 66 Days of Data with Ken Jee

Data scientist and Youtuber Ken Jee joins Jon Krohn for a deep dive into the world of sports analytics and brings us behind the makings of his large, online data science community. In this episode you will learn: The inspiration behind Ken’s YouTube videos [18:03] Ken’s four steps for getting started in data science [24:18] How sports analytics is transforming sports like golf [33:32] Ken’s favorite tools for software scripting as well as for production code development [41:10] How the #66DaysofData hashtag can supercharge your capacity as a data scientist [42:51] Ken’s data science podcast Ken’s Nearest Neighbors [54:11] LinkedIn Q&A [1:00:32] Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/555