In this episode, we speak with Sarah Rudd (@onfooty), VP of software development and analytics at StatDNA (@StatDNA). Sarah studied computer science and has a masters of business administration. She tells us how she combined her programming/processing skills with extra-curricular interests in football (soccer) to arrive at sports analytics. Sports analytics is about analyzing and presenting information from sporting events to help inform decisions. Sarah tells us about the challenges of the field and what it offers the sports industry. She also runs a couple blogs, so click the ‘more’ button and learn more! Enjoy!
www.onfooty.com is a blog discussing popular articles about statistics in football.
blog.statdna.com showcases the cool things StatDNA are doing with their data.
socceranalysts.com/ is an aggregate of several football/soccer data blogs from the US and UK.
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