About NFL Big Data Bowl Submissions - Newsletter 9

I’ve mentioned to you about the Big Data Bowl in the newsletter and in the blog. It’s a great place to make yourself a name, practice real sports analytics with data provided and answer questions from the competition but also letting the creativity flow.

@chaygriff says: “as someone who has worked in recruiting for major tech companies this competition is a great way to get your name out there so make sure you take advantage of that!include your linkedin, git, and personal websites in your submittals - this'll make it easier to get noticed”

Making great analysis, getting value from data and helping make game decisions are basically the goals of sports analytics. If you can show that you can do that, please provide links to code, resources used, your social network, etc. Anything that can be useful to an external person, who doesn’t know anything about you, to want to learn more about you and what you did.   You are very familiar with what you know, your skills, the decisions you made for an analysis and what interests you, but unless you are really clear about it every time, probably anyone reading your posts will know nothing about that. And you need to give them an easy way to reach you and you need to** give them more** to be really interested. Don’t miss on that.

Here is an example of  a  Big Data Bowl submission. Well structured, great explanations, mathematical basis and good visuals to keep the reader focused and wanting for more. Also big visual impacts catch the attention of people not so familiar and make the presentation easier to remember.

Hope this is useful as a reference. Start doing something instead of just wishing, go for it, try it.