Getting Started

I searched the internet for NBA data. There is a huge dataset with past years data but I wanted current data. The NBA has a good webpage stats tool where you can select filters and find anything you want for stats but there is no files available for download from there. I figured out that I can use their stats tool to search for whatever I want and then copy and paste the results to a text document and save that. Then I can upload that in R to analyze. There was a problem with the spacing in the data because the columns were separated by tabs instead of commas or just one space but I figured out I can specify that the separator is \t which is what the code is for a tab. I will gather data in this way. There are several questions that I can ask of the dataset and I’m sure there will be more as I continue researching.