Build Your First Hockey Analytics Dashboard With Power Bi

Design and build your very first team performance hockey dashboard using key hockey statistics and Microsoft Power BI

What you'll learn

Define team and player statistics for a hockey analytics dashboard

Use web-based resources to source hockey data for those statistics

Program with Python to retrieve and normalize the data

Design and build a hockey dashboard using Microsoft Power BI

Requirements

Some beginner programming experience is helpful, but not necessary.

Description

This course is intended for the hobbyist who is passionate about hockey and is now looking to improve their skills around hockey analytics. If you really enjoy watching hockey, but have been unsure as to how you get started with hockey analytics and creating dashboards for your personal projects or needs, then this course is for you! The goals of the course are to1) introduce you to Microsoft Power BI, 2) provide an overview of key hockey statistics at the team and player level, 3) show you how you can manually and programmatically access hockey data, and 4) use that team and player performance hockey data to create your very first hockey dashboard. Through several lectures, we'll teach you the basics of Microsoft Power BI, raw and calculated hockey statistics for player and team performance, the process to design and create a team performance dashboard in Power BI, and give you tips and tricks for evolving your first hockey analytics project into a professional project.  By the end of the course, you'll have created your very own Team Performance dashboard and will be ready to tackle other hockey analytics projects (such as coaching dashboard, team and player tracking dashboards, fantasy hockey dashboards, and so on).

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction to Building Your First Hockey Analytics Dashboard

Lecture 2 Pre-requisite Software

Section 2: Overview of Microsoft Power BI

Lecture 3 Overview of Microsoft Power BI

Section 3: Conceptual Architecture

Lecture 4 Overview of Conceptual Architecture

Section 4: Key Statistics

Lecture 5 Key Statistics for Hockey Analytics

Section 5: Retrieving Data using Web Based APIs

Lecture 6 Retrieving Hockey Data using Web-Based APIs

Lecture 7 Reviewing the Data Retrieval Manual and Programmatic Methods

Section 6: Hockey Analytics Dashboard Design

Lecture 8 Hockey Analytics Dashboard Design

Section 7: Refreshing the Hockey Data in Power BI

Lecture 9 Refreshing the Hockey Data and Dashboard in Power BI

Section 8: Advanced Topics

Lecture 10 Hockey Analytics Advanced Topics

Hockey enthusiasts who want to build their first hockey analytics dashboards