Football: Scraping data from free websites – Pt. 1, Matches
I’ve built a set of scrapers to gather information, stats and event data (e.g. coordinates of shots, goals and assists)…
2023
General Webscraping Strategy/Checklist
Webscraping obviously includes lots of potential tools, methods and solutions, but I tried to come up with an overview of…
APFA: Opposition Report & Certificate
As part of the ” Opposition Scouting & Analysis” course run by the APFA (Association of Professional Football Analysis), I…
Opposition report; Watford vs Bournemouth (January 2 2019)
As part of the Level 3 Advanced Reporting course run by the PFSA (Professional Football Scouts Association), I wrote a…
Match reports using Python and Opta Data
As part of my progression in learning and practicing football analytics, I’ve been meaning to complete a Python project for…
Datavisualisation: Global Media Concentration
I used data from a global study on the economic concentration of the media to create a data-based infographic.
Thesis Summary: the Milk Tea Alliance
For about a year, as part of my MA in political science, I researched the Milk Tea Alliance (MTA), a…
Alex Jones’s Far-Right Conspiracism and Business Model
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Data Scouting Project: Manchester Utd, Summer 2023
Over the summer, I did a pretty in-depth data scouting project focused on my favorite club, namely Manchester United. Below…
The big issues and hurdles faced when using data to assess Goalkeepers’ performance: Case Study with David De Gea
This text is based on what I wrote for my Manchester United 2023 Summer data scouting project, and offers an…