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Sports Analytics & Streaming Data Science on Twitch

In this video, I had the pleasure of speaking with Nick Wan. Nick streams data science content on Twitch but has also worked in sports analytics with the Cincinnati Reds. His work there allowed him to recently pivot into a data science manager role at KFC.

Nick and I spoke about his experiences learning data science, breaking into sports analytics, and streaming data science content on Twitch. He also gives some awesome advice related to interviewing for data science roles and learning as you go.

Follow Nick on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/nickwan_datasci Follow Nick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nickwan

Listen to Ken’s Nearest Neighbors on all the main podcast platforms! On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast… (Please rate if you enjoy it!) On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7fJsuxi… On Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0… On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpEJ… (Trying to get to 1k so I can start tagging YouTube Guests!)

Ken Jee

Ken is one of the founders of Playing Numbers. He has worked in sports analytics for the last 5 years focusing primarily on golf and basketball. He founded playing numbers to help others learn about the field he loves.

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