555: Sports Analytics and 66 Days of Data with Ken Jee

Data scientist and Youtuber Ken Jee joins Jon Krohn for a deep dive into the world of sports analytics and brings us behind the makings of his large, online data science community.

In this episode you will learn:

• The inspiration behind Ken’s YouTube videos [18:03]
• Ken’s four steps for getting started in data science [24:18]
• How sports analytics is transforming sports like golf [33:32]
• Ken’s favorite tools for software scripting as well as for production code development [41:10]
• How the #66DaysofData hashtag can supercharge your capacity as a data scientist [42:51]
• Ken’s data science podcast Ken’s Nearest Neighbors [54:11]
• LinkedIn Q&A [1:00:32]

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