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Intro to R and Python for sports practitioners

R and Python are powerful programming languages extensively used in data analysis and visualization. In sports science, these tools enable practitioners to integrate, manipulate, and display athlete performance data efficiently. Working with a large team - an American football team can have up to 100 athletes - generates a significant amount of data: GPS, skinfolds, jump data, force frames, and more. Coaches require rapid data turnover to enable timely decision making by all stakeholders involved with the athletes. R and Python can integrate athlete data from various sources, creating comprehe...

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