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Numbers Don't Lie
By Yago Colás
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Description
Numbers Don’t Lie explores the power of data to tell stories about ourselves and the world around us. As advanced statistical methods and big-data technologies transform sports, we now have the power to count more things in greater detail than ever before. These numbers tell us about the past, present, and future that shape how basketball is played on the floor, decisions are made in front offices, and the sport is marketed and consumed. But what is the relationship between counting and what counts, between quantification and value?
In Numbers Don’t Lie ColÁs offers a three-part history of counting in basketball. First, he recounts how big-data basketball emerged in the past twenty years, examines its current practices, and analyzes how it presents itself to the public. ColÁs then situates big data within the deeper social, cultural, and conceptual history of counting in basketball and beyond and proposes alternative frameworks of value with which we may take fuller stock of the impact of statistics on the sport. Ultimately, ColÁs challenges the putative objectivity of both quantification and academic writing by interweaving through this history a series of personal vignettes of life at the intersection of basketball, counting, and what counts.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
360
Release Date:
2020-11-01
Publication Date:
2020-11-01
Publisher:
Nebraska
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1496216148
ISBN13:
9781496216144
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Weight:
692 g
Height:
165 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
35 cm
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