JackBurdick / height_weight_sports_2014

heights and weights of EPL, NHL, and NBA players are explored

Explore Height and Weight of Professional Athletes

Heights and Weights of professional athletes in the EPL, NHL, and NBA are investigated

FAQ:

• What's the EPL?
  • English Premier League
• Hmmmm ok, what's the English Premier League?
  • Football League
• Ok, ok, and so by football do you mean soccer?
  • Yes; wiki link to EPL

Overview

Relevant code:

Creation of custom dataset from below sources

• ./create_json_dataset.ipynb

Exploring the datasets

• ./Explore_ht-vs-wt_sport.ipynb
• The cleaned dataset (with heights&weights for entries by sport) can be downloaded from ./ht_wt_data_2014.json

Resources

Datasets source: http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~winner/datasets.html

• NBA 2013-2014 Player Heights and Weights
  • ./raw_data/nba_ht_wt.csv
  • download link from source
• NHL 2013-2014 Player Heights and Weights
  • ./raw_data/nhl_ht_wt.csv
  • download link from source
• EPL 2014-2015 Player Heights and Weights
  • ./raw_data/elp_2015_ht_wt.csv
  • download link from source