A Brief Introduction to Sports Analytics by Prof. Ben Baumer, Smith College

Statistics Colloquium by Prof. Ben Baumer, Smith College, Friday March 14, 1:00 – 1:50pm, North Science Building 017, Wachenheim, Statistics Colloquium

Benjamin S. Baumer is a professor in the Statistical & Data Sciences program at Smith College. Ben is a co-author of The Sabermetric Revolution, Modern Data Science with R, and the second and third editions of Analyzing Baseball Data with R. Ben has received the Waller Education Award from the ASA Section on Statistics and Data Science Education, the Significant Contributor Award from the ASA Section on Statistics in Sports, and the Contemporary Baseball Analysis Award from the Society for American Baseball Research. His research interests include sports analytics, data science, statistics and data science education, statistical computing, and network science.