Information Analysis and Processing for Training — Bachelor's Degree, 2024/2025

About this edition

• Degree: Bachelor’s Degree in Sports Science, University of Udine
• Course: Sistemi di Analisi ed Elaborazione delle Informazioni per l’Allenamento
• Instructor: Michael Soprano, course instructor
• Teaching hours: 24
• Assessment: Written exam with answer choices

Programme

The final programme presented in the closing slides of this edition covered three modules.

1. Data science in sport

• What data are and how they are used in sport
• From raw data to information
• Populations, variables, measurement scales and types of data

2. Representation and management of data

• Filesystem storage and ways of representing data
• An introduction to semiotics
• Digital representation of text, images, sound and video, including character encoding, graphics, sampling and MIDI messages
• The Shannon–Weaver model, entropy and redundancy
• Lossless and lossy compression

3. Data analysis with Microsoft Excel

• Workbook interface, cells, data entry, formatting and cell ranges
• A practical case study on a gym budget
• Formulas and functions, including syntax, operators, arguments and common errors
• Importing structured data from text files
• Creating charts, including line, scatter and area charts
• Creating and using PivotTables

The Bachelor’s Degree course overview connects this edition with the other academic years. Programme details on this page follow the final summary in the 2024/2025 course slides.