Nathan Braun – Learn To Code With Soccer

Python. Pandas. Web Scraping. Databases. SQL. Machine Learning. APIs.
All applied to Soccer Data

Soccer is a great gateway to coding
Learning to code isn’t hard, you just need to stick with it a bit. That’s why the most important thing is starting with a project you’re excited about.

This book will take you from playing around with stats in Excel to scraping websites, building databases and running your own machine learning models.

Learn How to Do Your Own Soccer Analysis in Python
You’ll learn — step by step and applied to soccer — how to program your own analysis.

Do I need any coding experience?

• No! Many people have gone through it with zero coding experience and done just fine.
• That said, it does move fast and build on itself, so if you’re new you might just have to take it slower and make sure you understand each section before continuing. 
• It includes end-of-chapter problems and exercises that you can use to do that, so it’s not hard.

Do I need any special software?

• We’ll learn Python, which is a free, open-source program. Detailed installation instructions are included.
• The book includes some optional spaced repetition flashcards to help you remember what you’ve learned. The official iPhone app to use these costs $25 (it’s free on Android). It’s worth it IMO, but I describe workarounds if you don’t want to pay this.