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We are hiring new PhD students! There are a number of open positions, also w/Tias Guns or Angelika Kimmig kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…

What happens when you combine your current love of soccer with your childhood love of Pokemon? Paul Harvey goes farther down this rabbit *ahem* I mean "Diglett" hole than any of us here at ASA expected. americansocceranalysis.com/home/2022/6/10…

Mathematics, physics, computer programming. This video caught my eye today. It features pouring a green liquid into a maze-like structure. bit.ly/3R8QxFh

"Every night, Doctor, when it gets dark, and the stars come out... I'll look up at the sky, and think of you." Bernard Cribbins (1928-2022) ❤️❤️

Moving to London.

For the third time in a row, there will be DTAI research paper at the StatsBomb conference! 🎉 Our research will propose a novel performance metric to quantify the creative abilities of soccer players. \w Maaike Van Roy Jesse Davis

Amazing article. Must-read for anybody who wants to know what it is like to work on Integrity/Content moderation on social media.

Curious about which youngsters may break out in Qatar? ⚽️ We used our data-driven VAEP rating to identify the most promising and in-form U21 players at the ongoing #FIFAWorldCup. Taylor, Musiala & Simons top the list 📈 (\w Pieter Robberechts Jesse Davis) dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/sports/blog/a-…

With soccerdata + socceraction, you can compute xT ratings (see karun.in/blog/expected-…) with only a few lines of code.

With the growing interest in soccer analytics, it can be challenging to sift through all of the content that appeared in 2022. My latest blog post lists the research papers, blog posts, news articles, books, and podcast episodes that I liked the most! janvanhaaren.be/2022/12/29/soc…

Code Lifespan xkcd.com/2730

“The 27 Worst Things About Going To Stock Photo University” - something I made years ago and I just found it archived, and I’m pasting it here in a thread

Happy to announce that our work on quantifying creativity in soccer has been accepted for presentation at the #KDD2023 conference! 🎉 A thread... (1/n) \w Maaike Van Roy Jesse Davis 📝 Preprint: people.cs.kuleuven.be/~pieter.robber… ⚙️ Code: github.com/ML-KULeuven/un… youtube.com/watch?v=hV3whg…

Best poster award

Have you seen the 2-minute video abstract for our upcoming #KDD2023 paper? 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=hV3whg… We're in the running for the audience appreciation award, and you can make a difference! Show your support by giving it a 👍 and let's aim for the highest view count! 🏆😁

Check out ETSY, our open-source rule-based algorithm for synchronizing soccer event and tracking data. w/ Lorenzo Cascioli and Jesse Davis 🤖 Code: github.com/ML-KULeuven/ET… 🌐 Blog: dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/sports/blog/et…

With the growing interest in soccer analytics, it can be challenging to sift through all of the content that appeared in 2023. My latest blog post lists the research papers, blog posts, news articles, podcast episodes, and events that I liked the most! janvanhaaren.be/posts/soccer-a…

Whoop. SoccerAction v1.5.0 is out! 🤝 This release features the long-awaited integration with kloppy. You can now convert a kloppy dataset* to SPADL! 🚀 Check out the release at: github.com/ML-KULeuven/so…

This Australian data scientist has some thoughts about AI and the current state of his industry ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fu…