🎙️ GraphEPV at PyData London 2025
On Saturday June 7th 2025 I had the opportunity to present at PyData London. My talk, titled Cutting Edge Football Analytics using Polars, Keras and Spektral, provided a hands-on introduction to building football analytics models with Polars, Keras, and Spektral. We started by exploring specific open-source football analytics Python libraries (kloppy and mplsoccer) followed by a brief introduction of basic Polars functionality, to efficiently process millions of player and ball coordinates from high-frequency positional tracking data. Next, we introduced Keras and Spektral for Deep Learning and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), demonstrating how these tools can be used to develop in-game prediction models and extract advanced football metrics, and how all of this is integrated in my Python package unravelsports.
More information on this Python package can be found in the GitHub repository linked below.
Watch the presentation on YouTube below.
