🤷‍♂️This is the first of what might turn into a regular series (I'm not sure yet). This piece arose because I was talking to a (very lovely) data scientist about their experience of applying for a job, and I thought it would be really interesting for other people
Obviously a big chunk of this blog is me deconstructing job adverts and occasionally being rude about them, so it's only fair that this time it's someone else's turn to have a go at me: Twelve is hiring, which means my own company'
Part of what makes this sort of analysis interesting is the contrast between this role with the role I looked at in Australia recently. And this England role should also be read in the context of a LinkedIn piece I wrote before I started Between the Lines. Relative to the
There are a couple of international roles that have come up potentially off the back of the World Cup, and this is one of them. This one's a data science role at Football Australia, based at Moore Park in Australia. The role they're advertising is pretty
When I first started working in football I recall being struck by two things. The first was that there was quite a lot of publicly available data. That was unusual compared to the other industries I’d worked in, where there was almost nothing. Most businesses are of course very
Bodø/Glimt are hiring a Leader for Data and AI and this is another one of those job adverts that genuinely brings a smile to my face (two and counting if you are keeping score). Partly because of the way the role is described, but partly because it exposes something
Southampton FC are hiring a Data Scientist based at their Staplewood Campus and this is the second role I've reviewed at the club recently, following the Head of Data and Research position a few weeks ago. It's worth reading this one alongside that post because a
Arsenal are hiring a Research Engineer and this one is super interesting to me because although it arguably isn't really a data science role, so many elements of it are. I read it as a forward thinking way of solving problems in a modern way, which is exactly
Today I'm posting two adverts that I wouldn't normally review in detail for different reasons. But both are potential routes into football ultimately and reading them side by side tells you something interesting. The first is a Senior Data Scientist at Ludonautics, a consultancy similar to
Last time I reviewed a data science job in football I was writing about arguably the biggest club in the world. This time it's AFC Fylde who have just won the sixth tier of English football and been promoted to the fifth (with a 100 point season by
Manchester United are hiring a Forward Deployed Data Engineer on a 12 month fixed term contract based at Carrington and while my usual rule is not to give too much insight into clubs where I have, ahem, more knowledge than most, I think this is an interesting role to discuss.
Southampton FC are hiring a Head of Data and Research based at their Staplewood Campus -> https://saintsfc.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/SFC001/details/Head-of-Data-and-Research_RQ-038131. This is described as a senior leadership role sitting within the Sport Republic group which also includes Göztepe