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Lob City Data and Analytics is a blog that publishes basketball data analysis projects using open-source data and Python code, with a focus on Machine Learning.

Both the code and the data from all projects are accessible on my GitHub.

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Evaluating the shooting in Steph Curry's 2015-16 MVP season

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