Enhance Athletes Performance Through Data Analytics & Recommender Systems
A couple of months ago I was contacted by a small training-fitness startup . They wanted to know if applying analytics techniques and methods could help them answer some of their business questions and enhance trainees' performance. I told them that indeed it was a doable task. However, they pointed out that the startup had limited resources, a small budget, and NO data... Now, I realized that the task at hand was a huge challenge... Indeed. So, h ow to tackle this challenge effectively, get the job done, and deliver useful and actionable insight for this training-fitness startup? It was t ime to, again, think out of the box. The answer to these tough questions was to use some of Google Workspace cloud-based collaborative tools (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms), together with the TRIFACTA platform, and the open-source R language comprehensive library; to design and implement an effective low-cost solution; serving the results as fully interactive tables and easy to digest visu