Kirk Goldsberry
Kirk Goldsberry is a geographer and a leading data visualization scholar, known best for pioneering the square shot chart in basketball analytics,[1][2][3] and for being one of the leaders of the recent advanced metrics movement in basketball.[4][5][6]
Formerly a staffwriter at Grantland[7] and FiveThirtyEight,[8] his work on sports and spatial reasoning has made regular appearances in the New York Times,[9] Wired Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and on ESPN. He gained notoriety in part due to a series of popular research papers at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.
He has taught a variety of courses on cartography and sports analytics at Harvard, the University of Texas, and Michigan State University. He is currently working as the VP of Strategic Research for the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA.[10][11]
References
- ↑ Mcclusky, Mark (2014-10-28). "One Man’s Quest to Track Every NBA Shot Remade Basketball". Wired.
- ↑ Mcfarland, K.M. (2016-06-02). "Three Ideas for Remaking the Three-Point Shot". Wired Magazine.
- ↑ Rudow, Bryce. "How to Create NBA Shot Charts in Python (just like Kirk Goldsberry!)". randomnerds.
- ↑ McConnon, Tom (2014-11-25). "Kirk Goldsberry is a data genius. Here’s why you should care about his work.". DOMO.
- ↑ Yau, Nathan. "Basketball shot charts, make your own". Flowing Data. Flowing Data.
- ↑ Erler, Michael (Feb 29, 2016). "Spurs hire leading analytic expert Kirk Goldsberry". Pounding the Rock.
- ↑ https://grantland.com/contributors/kirk-goldsberry/
- ↑ https://fivethirtyeight.com/contributors/kirk-goldsberry/
- ↑ White, Jeremy; Ward, Joe; Ericson, Matthew (June 12, 2012). "Where the Heat and the Thunder Hit Their Shots". New York Times.
- ↑ Solis, Manuel (2016-03-03). "Goldsberry Era Begins for the Spurs". San Antonio Current.
- ↑ Erler, Michael. "Spurs hire leading analytic expert Kirk Goldsberry". Pounding the Rock.