data-sources.qmd

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title: Data Sources
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Here are some resources for finding sports datasets:

- [CRAN Task View for Sports Analytics](https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/SportsAnalytics.html) - catalog of `R` packages published on the Comprehensive `R` Archive Network (CRAN) organized by sport (curated by Benjamin S. Baumer, Quang Nguyen, and Gregory J. Matthews)
- [SportsDataverse initiative](https://sportsdataverse.org/) - collection of software tools for accessing publicly available sports data (organized by Saiem Gilani)
- [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets?search=sports)
- [TidyTuesday](https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday) - GitHub repository of datasets updated weekly with example code for accessing data (featuring a variety of sports examples)
- [FiveThirtyEight](https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data) - GitHub repository of datasets used in [FiveThirtyEight](https://fivethirtyeight.com/) articles