Nick Wan
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Nick Wan
@nickwan
Sr Dir Baseball Analytics @reds
- Big news! I'm coming back to the Cincinnati Reds as the Director of Analytics
- there's no way a CIO is buying $28 of taco bell for lunch. i looked at the data. here's why:
- I'm hosting a free data science bootcamp for people trying to make the jump from spreadsheets to a programming language! If you know some stats and work in excel/gsheets and want a push in the right direction, come check it out starting June 27
- I'M HIRING AN INTERN FOR OUR DATA SCIENCE TEAM! CHECK IT OUT eczd.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…
- Replying to @drivelinekyle and @drivelinebasesI love how statistical programming somehow is very useful but statistics is somehow not useful
- I'm launching a new Kaggle competition! We're using the new swing length and bat speed data from Baseball Savant to predict batted ball outcomes. Hoping we can continue pushing out more public work around hitting metrics
- What if I hosted my own virtual conf and invited all sports analytics folks and turn it into podcasts and put the vods on YouTube? Could also front load research presentations prior to each panel. Turn the conf discord into the virtual social Any interest?
- The Reds are hiring for a data scientist! I'm looking far and wide for great candidates. Will keep this posting open for the rest of this week
- Hosting a new game show tomorrow called Viz Buzz. Think of it like a data viz version of #SLICED. Stream starts at 8:30pm ET. A little different than SLICED as well. One match consists of 3 contestants with ~30 mins to replicate a random data viz. 3 matches every Tuesday
- Baseball is coming back but I won't be coming back with it. My last day at the Reds is July 10th. I'm going to be a KFC manager instead
