93: How to Leverage Sports Analytics for a Standout Dataviz Portfolio — Featuring Shri Khalpada
About this episode
In this episode, Shri Khalpada discusses leveraging sports analytics to enhance a dataviz portfolio.
Are you looking for ways to make your work stand out in a crowded industry, like sports? Or maybe looking for a topic with pretty clean data to create a portfolio project? In today's episode, we're chatting with Shri Khalpada , a D.C. area creative coder and Principal Software Engineer at Cleaning the Glass , which is an NBA analytics website founded by Ben Faulk that's available to the public and also has more robust tools for NBA teams. Shri shares how he increased his chances of landing a coveted sports analytics job, and a few lessons he's learned working with sports data that can be applied to any dataviz job. Let's go! Show notes: https://dataviztoday.com/shownotes/93 Grab my book Chart Spark , which has NINE prompts to help you be more innovative in your data communication: https://www.chartsparkbook.com If you think the book deserves a review, I'd be so grateful if you shared your favorite part in an Amazon or Goodreads review 🙏🙏🙏 Sponsor: Data Elixir newsletter! https://dataelixir.com
People in this episode
Host: Alli Torban
Guest: Shri Khalpada
Topics covered
- sports analytics
- data visualization
- portfolio development
- creative coding
- NBA analytics
Keywords
- sports analytics
- data visualization
- portfolio
- creative coding
- NBA
Sponsors
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Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Cleaning the Glass, NBA
Products: Chart Spark
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