My Python programming journey started in 2012, where I took two online courses on it, one from Coursera and one from MIT. While both courses gave me my programming fundamentals, I wanted deeper programming skills specifically for data analytics. I thought an analytics side project would be a great way to boost my Python data analytics skills, and keep me motivated at it.
My Side Project
The first thing I had to do was to decide on a topic. I wanted something that can keep me motivated and engaged, while also having enough data to analyse. As an avid NBA basketball fan, I felt predicting NBA games using their in-game data would be a really interesting project for me to explore.