Cricket Analytics for Beginners | Nikhil Jha
Nikhil Jha is a sports entrepreneur and educator, with more than a decade’s experience in the domain. His sports ventures have helped more than 50,000 people play sports and covered in Forbes, Mint, NDTV Prime and Zee Business among others.
He is passionate sports fan and has Guest written for Cricinfo. He has also been an industry speaker at CII Sports Events. He has worked on projects with multiple ventures, currently consulting Gary Kirsten Cricket. He mentors sports tech startups.
Nikhil also teaches Sports Management at IIM Rohtak and Entrepreneurship at IIM Calcutta, Trichy and IMT Ghaziabad.
In this session, targeted for beginners, he will cover:
Framing problem statement & story-telling through data
Basic data scraping on Excel
Collecting, cleaning and organizing data for analysis
Choosing the right methods to analyze and present data
A mini-case study putting all the above to practice which includes a walk-through on Excel
We will also share information about our upcoming workshop in Sports Analytics during the session.