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Premier League and Oracle: Expected Goals

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About This Workshop
If you are passionate about football and data, this live hands-on-lab is for you! Thanks to our partnership with Premier League you have the unique opportunity to experience first-hand what it is to be a football analyst and apply advanced analytics and machine learning to real match data!

Expected goals (xG) is a predictive model used to assess every goal-scoring chance, and the likelihood of scoring. The xG model computes for each chance, the probability to score based on factors such as distance, position of defenders, type and speed of pass, type of shot, shot angles and various other aspects (Event-based variables).

You will prepare match data on Autonomous to make it ready for analysis, visualize data on a football pitch, train your own xG machine learning model and apply your model to recent matches to understand team and player performance.

Workshop Info

2 hours

Lab 1: Provision Analytics Cloud

Lab 2: Provision Autonomous Data Warehouse

Lab 3: Load Data

Lab 4: Basic Data Exploration

Lab 5: Advanced Data Exploration (Spatial data)

Lab 6: Feature Engineering, ML Training

Lab 7: Apply the xG model to matches

Lab 8: Visualize the model to coach players

 

No previous experience with Analytics or Machine Learning required.

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