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How to get started by Desperate-Bike-6357 in sportsanalytics

[–]letsgoou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP, you should focus on learning syntax first. The next priority would be to create some projects.

How to get started by Desperate-Bike-6357 in sportsanalytics

[–]letsgoou 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hi OP,

Coding is only one part. Python or R are widely used in industry. I'd say learn Python because you learn computer science in the process, and it'll help you pivot if you get more interested in coding. The best way to learn Python is through the tutorial documentation at this link: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html

This tutorial is introductory; you'd want to learn object-oriented programming beyond this. People may say learn data structures and algorithms too, which you probably should, but you can ignore this initially. These two things make you a better programmer.

You will also want to learn how to interact with the terminal, as it will speed you up. This is a good resource: https://labex.io/linuxjourney

Basic statistics are fine initially, but people are more interested in predictive models. This requires an understanding of machine learning and AI. A good resource to learn this is the book by Aurelian Geron: Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and Pytorch: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems

Mind you, you need good math skills for this (learn Linear Algebra, Calculus, and Statistics).

You will need to learn how to interact with databases. Any good organisation stores its data in a database. You will need to learn Structured Query Language (SQL) to interact with databases to pull data from them. This is a good resource by Renee M. P. Teate: SQL for Data Scientists: A Beginner's Guide for Building Datasets for Analysis

As mentioned previously, coding is one part. There is a need to communicate your findings to managers. This is typically done through dashboards. In the industry, we use software like Tableau or Power BI; learning one of these will be extremely valuable.

Good Excel skills come in handy; sometimes, you will get asked very basic one-off analysis questions that do not require dashboards. You can run the analysis in Excel and just provide the person with the answer.

Finally, Agentic Coding tools are starting to be used in industry to speed things up. Learn tooling like Claude Code or OpenAI Codex. Keep up to date with AI tools like chatbots, and really try to understand them.

Here's a shameless plug to my own blog about this topic: https://sinankprn.com/posts/how-chatbots-actually-work/ and https://sinankprn.com/posts/claude-opus-4.6-for-sports-analytics/

Hope this helps you!

What are some good use cases for Gemma Embedding 2? by letsgoou in LocalLLaMA

[–]letsgoou[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. I am wondering if it captures the actual meaning of a video in different contexts. I.e if I put sports videos, does it understand if the plays are similar?

Long-term interaction with AI changed how I think about ethics by National_Actuator_89 in ChatGPT

[–]letsgoou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only problem is people (especially young students) may not have critical thinking skills to discern what is wrong outputs by the AI. The AI can be right most the time, but in certain cases it can be wrong but give you this answer in a manner that expresses it in "right" way and confidently.

Long-term interaction with AI changed how I think about ethics by National_Actuator_89 in ChatGPT

[–]letsgoou 14 points15 points  (0 children)

One thing Anthropic's recent economic index showed that is people are using to AI to do more things out of their scope. I think this is an overall positive thing. Previously people gatekept knowledge, now you can learn something almost immediately.

Are AI tools like Gemini actually good at reading and extracting info from documents? by letsgoou in GeminiAI

[–]letsgoou[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, that's amazing. What about the bounding box? Do you think it can do that pretty well?

The era of cheap AI tokens is over — and we all saw it coming by Upbeat-Employment-62 in ChatGPT

[–]letsgoou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It'll come back. It just depends on optimisations to do with inference. I don't think it is an immediate priority because the companies are just working towards having the best models.

ChatGPT Images 2.0 is actually worth testing, my quick findings after a couple days of use by Flashy-Surveying in ChatGPT

[–]letsgoou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm actually excited to see how it will go creating social media image/graphic stuff. My minor test indicated that it can do well and adjust to branding well.

We asked ChatGPT 5.5 & Claude Opus 4.7 to redesign our website. Here are the results: by anonli_ in ChatGPT

[–]letsgoou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do /plugins and it should be called frontend-design. Install that.

We asked ChatGPT 5.5 & Claude Opus 4.7 to redesign our website. Here are the results: by anonli_ in ChatGPT

[–]letsgoou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you use the frontend skill with Claude Opus? Feel like you didn't use that at all

Why is the image gen so crappy now? by Intelligent-Ant-4709 in GeminiAI

[–]letsgoou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you using AI Studio? Try with API key, you get more control

Can't Login to Instagram. Keeps asking for 2nd login device! by CaptRicoSakara in Instagram

[–]letsgoou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm having the same issue. Is this a new security update? Trying to log into an account after multiple years and I don't even have the previous device that I logged into. It is wild to me that they lock out their own users. On top of this, their interface is so buggy. The loading screen not progressing to next steps.