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Baseball Data Visualization in Power BI

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167 reviews
Updated 04/2024
Discover how to analyze and visualize baseball data using Power BI. Create scatter plots, tornado charts, and gauges to bring baseball insights alive.
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Course Description

Visualize Baseball Data

In this course, you’ll harness the power that Power BI offers to examine and analyze one of the most well-known and extensive baseball datasets freely available on the internet - Lahman’s baseball dataset.

Create Charts and Conditional Formatting

By creating insightful visualizations through built-in and customized charts and conditional formatting, you’ll bring this dataset alive. Working for a baseball historian and a team General Manager, you’ll create a range of visualizations, such as scatter plots, tornado charts, and gauges, to visualize baseball insights without overwhelming your audience.

Improve Your Power BI Skills

Throughout the course, you'll learn how to create powerful data visualizations using Power BI and develop valuable skills for data analysis and visualization. This course is perfect for baseball enthusiasts, historians, and data analysts.

Prerequisites

Introduction to Power BI
1

Let's Play Ball!

​​In this first chapter, you'll get your first look at Lahman's baseball dataset, which you’ll use throughout the course and start working for a baseball historian. You will help the historian look into common opinions regarding baseball batting statistics and even examine a team's performance in one specific season.
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General Manager Work

In the second chapter, you will start your first tasks for the General Manager of a team, focusing on the performance of Shortstops during the 2019 season. You will also examine batting averages for different teams and players and get introduced to the Mendoza Line!
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3

Performance Over Time

In this chapter, you will once again team up with a baseball historian to provide information on how offensive productivity has changed over time and hone in on whether batters have emphasized hitting for power as baseball has developed.
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Achieving Targets

The last chapter is all about wrapping up projects for the General Manager. You will look at appearance statistics for players for different positions, and you will also track if a team has met its season targets.
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FAQs

What baseball dataset is used in this Power BI course?

You will work with Lahman's baseball dataset, one of the most well-known and extensive freely available baseball datasets on the internet.

What types of charts will I create in this course?

You will create scatter plots, tornado charts, gauges, and other customized visualizations using both built-in and custom Power BI chart types with conditional formatting.

Do I need baseball knowledge to benefit from this course?

Basic familiarity with baseball helps since you will analyze batting statistics and team performance, but the course is also suitable for anyone wanting Power BI visualization practice.

What is the only prerequisite for this course?

Introduction to Power BI is the only prerequisite. This makes it accessible to anyone with basic Power BI skills, regardless of their experience level.

What roles will I work for in the course scenario?

You will create visualizations for a baseball historian researching batting statistics and for a team General Manager analyzing team performance data.

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