Category: Announcements

Earlier today the UTSPAN team had the pleasure of attending the 2015 Sports Industry Conference hosted by the University of Toronto Sports and Business Association (UTSB). UTSB were kind enough to let us set up a small booth with a poster to show off a bit of our work and extend an invitation to all attendees. The conference was a big success and we would like to thank UTSB for hosting an extremely well-organized event with top class panels.

We would like to announce that our next meeting will be held on Monday 16 March 2015 at 7PM in room 3008 of the Bahen Centre for Information Technology (40 St George Street). Join us to learn more about the group and what we hope to achieve in the coming months! We will also be hoping to discuss some possibilities for the upcoming UTSPAN Data Hack-a-thon!

A big thank you to everyone who stopped by the booth to chat with us! If you have any questions feel free to reach out to us on Twitter or by email at: sportsanalytics@utoronto.ca

We have set up a free forum for UTSPAN on ProBoards! A link has also been added to the menu bar in the top right of our webpage.

This will serve as our primary project work platform as it allows us to share ideas, images, code, links, and just about anything else. The forum will be visible publicly and there are no restrictions on membership. Sign up and get started!

utspan.proboards.com

Keith Lyons, Adjust Professor of Sport Studies at the University of Canberra, recently reached out to share his new open course on Sport Informatics and Analytics!

The course starts on 23 February 2015. You can have a look at the course description here:

https://www.canvas.net/browse/ucanberra/courses/sport-informatics-and-analytics

We will be holding our third meeting on Monday 9 February 2015 at 7PM in BA3008.

Apart from a couple of announcements, this will largely be a round table for everyone to discuss any ideas moving forward.

As ever, new members are always welcome!

We will be holding our second meeting on Monday 26 January 2015 at 7PM in BA2135.

This meeting will have a number of short presentations from the smaller project exploration teams. We aim to decide on the focus of the handful of projects which will ultimately be our work for the next couple of months.

New members are always welcome! Come out and see what UTSPAN is planning to do!

We will be holding a general information meeting for anyone interested in joining the group or just hearing more about what we plan to do!

• Monday 12 January 2015
• 7PM
• Bahen Centre for Information Technology (40 St George Street)
• Room #2135

The meeting will likely cover:

• An introduction from the executives
• A quick introduction to the field of sports analytics
• An overview of how the group will operate
• A discussion of the milestones we are currently looking at

This meeting will be followed by a more technical meeting in the coming weeks.

We are a group of passionate sport fans who are interested in building predictive and analytic mathematical models for everything from ping pong to hockey. We will be having meetings at the U of T St. George campus. Stay tuned for more information!