Data Scientist at Norwich City FC - Sam Radford #58

Data Scientist at Norwich City FC - Sam Radford #58

Sam is entering his 4th season working in professional football. The first, an internship with Sunderland whilst completing his Masters, the second a spell within the recruitment team at Rotherham Utd, and now, he is a data scientist at Norwich City.

Sam's background is actually in engineering, but that wasn't what he really wanted to apply his knowledge to. Norwich City are well known for having a great analysis department and in this conversation Sam shares what he gets up to, and what his journey has been like so far.

We chat recruitment, data, advice and plenty more.

0:00 - Introduction
1:37 - Sam joins and gives background
4:45 - Sam's masters degree, video or data?
11:20 - Did Sam have a portfolio of work?
13:02 - Sam's Masters thesis (predicted transfer values)
14:52 - Sunderland AFC and then recruitment analyst at Rotherham
20:12 - The process of getting the Norwich job, who Sam works with
23:12 - Skills required to be a data scientist, & presenting data
27:05 - Focussing on recruitment
30:33 - Building out a data department (when starting out)
32:56 - An average week for Sam, working with scouts
38:56 - How Sam keeps up with trends and new skills
41:46 - What to do without access to big data providers
44:02 - Podcasts, summary, wrap up

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