1. Takeaways from the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Nick Kapur and Marschall Furman

2. Conference Breakdown Hackathon Conference Talks Companies / Products
Networking / Career Advice

3. Hackathon - Basketball Tracking Data
Data: ~15 games of player and ball locations from this NBA season
Our idea: measure ability to get back on transition defense
Takeaways:
Good programming skills are necessary
Reading in and cleaning datasets
Data visualization
R, Python have many good resources
pythonprogramming.net
R for Data Science

4. Conference Talks Expert panels Current and former players
Zach Lowe, Daryl Morey, and Mike Zarren on basketball
Dusty Baker, Jerry Dipoto, and Brandon Taubman on baseball
Current and former players
Sue Bird, Jalen Rose, Steve Nash, and Chris Bosh on basketball
Alex Rodriguez on business, Jeremy Lin on social media use
Current research
Sensorimotor data in baseball
Play sketching in basketball
Obama

5. Companies / Products Real-time shot tracking
Injury and performance analytics
MLB virtual reality
Wearable technology

6. Networking / Career Advice
Resumés, business cards, and social media
Career connections, ESPN/538 booths
Lots of jobs on the business side
Tableau
Get your work out there for people to see!

7. General Takeaways
The MLB and NBA are leading the way for analytics in US sports
eSports are picking up the pace
Check out conference videos and papers