Namita Nandakumar - Senior Quantitative Analyst, Seattle Kraken

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Namita Nandakumar is a senior quantitative analyst for the expansion Seattle Kraken, which begin NHL play in the 2021-22 season. Namita came to Seattle from the Philadelphia Eagles, and she talks about…

- The excitement around the Seattle Kraken franchise
- Building a hockey team and an analytics team from scratch
- The state of hockey data in the NHL and beyond
- What she’s looking forward to about player tracking data
- Differences in working in football and hockey analytics
- Differences between doing public analytics and working for a team
- Her public work on drafting perfectly in the NHL and the effect of player size
- Her pitch for using the programming language R
- Advice for aspiring sports analysts
- Getting more women and underrepresented communities into sports analytics

Show Links
- Follow Namita on Twitter: @nnstats
- Profile on NHL.com
- Namita on Hockey Graphs and The Athletic
- Namita’s Twitter thread for people with sports analytics aspirations
- Hockey analytics starter kit
- What Does It Mean to Draft Perfectly: NESSIS poster and slide presentation
- Hockey Graphs mentorship program
- Measurables Office Hours program, Twitter, podcast
- Follow @TruMediaSports on Twitter

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