Carleton Launches Basketball Analytics Internship
If you were to look inside the gym bag of the head coach of a professional basketball team, you might be surprised what you found.
The staples of freshly pumped basketballs, an assortment of towels and a sleek pair of running shoes, sure, but clipboards and paperback playbooks have long since been replaced by high-powered computers running advanced big data analysis programs to help a team excel in the game, in the stadium and in the training room.
The data analyst is a pro sports team’s new all-star.