Kirk Goldsberry
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Kirk Goldsberry's Degrees
- PhD Geography Michigan State University
- Masters Geography Michigan State University
- Bachelors Geography Pennsylvania State University
Why Is Kirk Goldsberry Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kirk Goldsberry is a basketball writer. He was the vice president for strategic research for the San Antonio Spurs, the lead analyst for Team USA Basketball, and a visiting researcher at the Harvard Institute of Quantitative Social Sciences. He is best known for his sports writing and for pioneering the hexagonal shot chart in basketball analytics, and for being one of the leaders of the recent advanced metrics movement in basketball.
Kirk Goldsberry's Published Works
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Published Works
- POINTWISE: Predicting Points and Valuing Decisions in Real Time with NBA Optical Tracking Data (2014) (142)
- A Multiresolution Stochastic Process Model for Predicting Basketball Possession Outcomes (2014) (130)
- CourtVision : New Visual and Spatial Analytics for the NBA (2012) (109)
- Factorized Point Process Intensities: A Spatial Analysis of Professional Basketball (2014) (105)
- Characterizing the spatial structure of defensive skill in professional basketball (2014) (85)
- THEMATIC RELEVANCE AND PERCEPTUAL SALIENCE OF DYNAMIC GEOVISUALIZATION DISPLAYS (2005) (82)
- Counterpoints : Advanced Defensive Metrics for NBA (57)
- Issues of Change Detection in Animated Choropleth Maps (2009) (48)
- Change Blindness in Animated Choropleth Maps: An Empirical Study (2011) (46)
- The Dwight Effect : A New Ensemble of Interior Defense Analytics for the NBA (2013) (36)
- Creating space to shoot: quantifying spatial relative field goal efficiency in basketball (2014) (34)
- Considerations in Design of Transition Behaviors for Dynamic Thematic Maps (2010) (26)
- Choosing the scale and extent of maps for navigation with mobile computing systems (2007) (23)
- DeepHoops: Evaluating Micro-Actions in Basketball Using Deep Feature Representations of Spatio-Temporal Data (2019) (21)
- NBA Court Realty (2016) (21)
- Developing seasonal rainfall scenarios for food security early warning (2013) (21)
- Visualizing nutritional terrain: a geospatial analysis of pedestrian produce accessibility in Lansing, Michigan, USA (2010) (20)
- Move or Die: How Ball Movement Creates Open Shots in the NBA (19)
- Apples and Oranges? Classifying Food Retailers in a Midwestern US City Based on the Availability of Fresh Produce (2010) (9)
- Real-Time Traffic Maps (2007) (5)
- The Anatomy of Corner 3s in the NBA: What makes them efficient, how are they generated and how can defenses respond? (2021) (1)
- Mapping in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region, David I. Macleod (Ed.). East Lansing, Michigan State University Press (2007), ix + 377 pages, US$42 hardcover (2009) (0)
- Cartographic Perspectives Journal of the North American Cartographic Information Society Number 65 , Winter 2010 (2010) (0)
- DeepHoops (2019) (0)
- Measuring Research Data Uncertainty in the 2010 NRC Assessment of Geography Graduate Education (2011) (0)
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