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Tifo Talks: The role tactics play in data analysis with Dan Pelchen

Tifo Football Podcast

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The Role of a Data Scientist in Football?

The role of a data scientist isn't just being that person who's translating the data in isolation, it's having to have quite a degree of understanding of the domain expertise that goes into football. As the industry is maturing and growing into this space, you need to be able to understand how to communicate your particular function within this broader team or unit. And so there has to be that base level understanding of what maybe what kids today might call the meta of a game. Each club has their own unique way which they're approaching the game based on their formation or based on the actual resource available them. So interpretation of data is key when you're actually being asked to use it as part of

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