Loading in and investigating World Cup data in Python
Second lecture in our series on Soccermatics in Python. David Sumpter looks at how to load in manipulate football data (json files) in to Python.
Learning goals for this video are:
1, Downloading code
2, Downloading data
3, Organising working folder
4, Loading in data
5, What is a json file?
6, Using ‘for’ loops
7, Using ‘if’ statements
8, Identifying specific matches in Statsbomb data
The code you need for todays lecture is available in
https://github.com/Friends-of-Trackin...