Carnegie Mellon University

Education Initiatives

CMSAC leverages the growing interest in sports analytics to create innovative statistics and data science education initiatives at the undergraduate and graduate-level, including:

  • Capstone experiences partnering with CMU Athletics as well as teams, leagues, and vendors in the professional sports industry.
  • Unique, methods-based courses covering fundamental sports analytics techniques such as applied Bayesian modeling, with project showcases for launching a sports analytics career.
  • Summer undergraduate research experience in sports analytics, aka CMSACamp.
  • Central hub for NSF-funded SCORE Network, a national network for developing and disseminating Sports Content for Outreach, Research, and Education in data science.