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- ISBN 9781472927491
- Weight: 799g
- Dimensions: 194 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 20 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Sports Geek is a visual and numerical tour through sporting debates and ideas.
Sport revolves around two things: narrative and numbers. You need the narrative, otherwise why would anyone care about sport? Rivalries, emotions, and sporting legends all require it. But sport also needs numbers. Without them, we have no idea who has won. We need numbers to tell which team is top of the table, or who is the world champion.
Teams in all sports use data to create extraordinary analysis of how their players perform, to assess tactics and to get an edge over arch rivals; but fans are rarely presented with challenging and informative data that would help them to further understand sport.
You'll never see sport the same way again.
Rob Minto is a journalist who has worked at the Financial Times for 10 years. In 2006 he became the paper's first Interactive Editor. He has also been Technology Correspondent, and most recently Emerging Markets Assistant Editor, as well as writing occasional features and columns.
Rob has been obsessed about sport and statistics for many years. He is a journalist who can also design, write code, and crunch data using strange programmes.
He has four children and lives in London.
@robminto
