About the program
The Sport Analytics major will allow students to develop strong data analysis and analytical thinking skills to address important questions in the sport industry. Like many other industries, the sport industry is gathering an unprecedented amount of data on a daily basis. For example, the business office of professional sport teams collects data about fans and sponsors. The front office and coaching staff of major league teams increasingly rely on data to inform their in-game decisions. With the collection of massive data sets, sport organizations need professionals to analyze this data in order to draw useful insights.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Analyze data using statistical analysis, data mining, visualization, predictive analytics, and machine learning
- Communicate sport analytics, statistics, and data science results effectively to a non-technical audience (written, verbal, graphics)
- Develop computer programming skills to be able to extract, scrape, manage, and parse data for use in statistical analyses
- Identify and understand how to apply the various skills, roles, and functions of the different areas in the sport management industry