​​In this first chapter, you'll get your first look at Lahman's baseball dataset, which you’ll use throughout the course and start working for a baseball historian. You will help the historian look into common opinions regarding baseball batting statistics and even examine a team's performance in one specific season.

Let's play ball!

Baseball basics

Visualizing baseball data

One hit wonders

Doubles

The 95 Braves

Let's Play Ball!

In the second chapter, you will start your first tasks for the General Manager of a team, focusing on the performance of Shortstops during the 2019 season. You will also examine batting averages for different teams and players and get introduced to the Mendoza Line!

General manager work

Knowing your defence

Baseball analysis for the GM

Shortstops in 2019

The Mendoza Line

Team errors

Batting averages

General Manager Work

In this chapter, you will once again team up with a baseball historian to provide information on how offensive productivity has changed over time and hone in on whether batters have emphasized hitting for power as baseball has developed.

Performance over time

Batting rate statistics

Hits or home runs?

How many home runs?

Stolen bases

Performance Over Time

The last chapter is all about wrapping up projects for the General Manager. You will look at appearance statistics for players for different positions, and you will also track if a team has met its season targets.

Achieving targets

Total appearances

On-base percentage

Offensive and defensive targets

Final inning

Congratulations!

Achieving Targets

Metadata - Lahman's Baseball Database

Exercises and Datasets

DataCamp vs. Local Experience

In this course, you’ll harness the power that Power BI offers to examine and analyze one of the most well-known and extensive baseball datasets freely available on the internet - Lahman’s baseball dataset.
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By creating insightful visualizations through built-in and customized charts and conditional formatting, you’ll bring this dataset alive. Working for a baseball historian and a team General Manager, you’ll create a range of visualizations, such as scatter plots, tornado charts, and gauges, to visualize baseball insights without overwhelming your audience.
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Throughout the course, you'll learn how to create powerful data visualizations using Power BI and develop valuable skills for data analysis and visualization. This course is perfect for baseball enthusiasts, historians, and data analysts.

<h2>Visualize Baseball Data</h2> In this course, you’ll harness the power that Power BI offers to examine and analyze one of the most well-known and extensive baseball datasets freely available on the internet - Lahman’s baseball dataset. 
<h2>Create Charts and Conditional Formatting</h2> By creating insightful visualizations through built-in and customized charts and conditional formatting, you’ll bring this dataset alive. Working for a baseball historian and a team General Manager, you’ll create a range of visualizations, such as scatter plots, tornado charts, and gauges, to visualize baseball insights without overwhelming your audience.
<h2>Improve Your Power BI Skills</h2> Throughout the course, you'll learn how to create powerful data visualizations using Power BI and develop valuable skills for data analysis and visualization. This course is perfect for baseball enthusiasts, historians, and data analysts.

Introduction to Power BI

Discover how to analyze and visualize baseball data using Power BI. Create scatter plots, tornado charts, and gauges to bring baseball insights alive.

Baseball Data Visualization in Power BI | Lahman’s Baseball Dataset

Baseball Data Visualization in Power BI

Offensive and defensive targets

Baseball Data Visualization in Power BI

Hands-on interactive exercise