Information Analysis and Processing for Training — Bachelor's Degree, 2025/2026

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

• Data and information in sport, and the transition from raw data to information
• Populations, variables and measurement scales
• Types of variables and data

2. Representation and management of multimedia data

• Filesystem storage and digital representation of data
• Text: character sets and encoding
• Images: raster and vector graphics, and principal formats
• Sound: sampling, sampling frequency and depth
• Video: image sequences, characteristics and formats
• The Shannon–Weaver communication model, entropy and redundancy
• Lossless and lossy compression

3. Data analysis with Microsoft Excel

• Workbooks, cells, rows, columns, ranges, data entry and formatting
• Formulas and functions, including references, operators, errors, result types and nesting
• Importing structured data from text files
• Creating line, scatter and area charts
• Creating and using PivotTables
• Practical work with Fitbit data and data from the 2025 Boston Marathon

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 2025/2026 course slides.