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Master your advanced data skills to level up your impact on sports performance

Our leading mentorship program provides you with the support you need to move beyond spreadsheets and transform your data into visualisations that tell stories and enhance your communication with staff and athletes.

Are you currently only working in spreadsheets?

Do you fear entering the world of code-based solutions like R, Rstudio, and Shiny?

Do you waste hours alone trying to solve errors in your formulas or code?

We will support you in developing core data analysis and presentation skills. From understanding the importance of creating consistent workflows to supercharging statistics and visualisations, our defining feature is providing you with the direct support of a world-class mentor proven in the field of high-performance sports. We are everything an online course is not. We use your data with you, to level up your data skills, supercharging your ability to create impact in your work and make you indispensable!

Meet your Mentor

Meet Shaun; Shaun Mclaren is a S&C coach and Sport Scientist at Newcastle Falcons. He specialises in making sense of athlete data to inform the training process and optimise sports performance. Shaun’s main areas of expertise are translating scientific principles into practice, optimising sports science workflows, data visualisation and analysis, information synthesis and communication.

Through employment and consultancy, he has previously worked with UEFA, England and GB Rugby League, NBA, MLS Next, The Premier League, Aston Villa FC, Brisbane Broncos, and Nottingham Rugby, to name a few. Shaun is also a Professor in Practice with Durham University and works as an editor for Science and Medicine in Football and BASES, having published over 60 research papers in applied sports physiology and performance.

What others say about the program…

What is involved?

An example of the structure of our mentorship, with bonus content released weekly and a LIVE group monthly session with Shaun to take learning where you need it!

The LIVE sessions are held at 7pm UK time each month via Zoom. All sessions are recorded, so you will never miss a thing!

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  • A short 40min meeting to set mentees up for success on this pathway!

  • Tutorial 1 - The data journey

    Tutorial 2 - R install & walkthrough

    Tutorial 3 - Tidyverse & R project starter pack

    LIVE Session problem solving

  • Tutorial 1 - Tidyverse wrangling

    Tutorial 2 - Joins & Pivots

    Tutorial 3 - Custom Functions & Loops

    LIVE Session problem-solving and profile wrangling tasks

  • Tutorial 1 - The power in pictures

    Tutorial 2 - Building a ggplot

    Tutorial 3 - Perfecting plots

    LIVE Session problem-solving and post session tasks

  • Tutorial 1 - Standardised scores

    Tutorial 2 - A primer on models

    Tutorial 3 - Monitoring individuals

    LIVE Session problem-solving and post-session tasks

  • Tutorial 1 - Making a markdown

    Tutorial 2 - Shiny

    Tutorial 3 - Flexing with flexadashboards

    LIVE Session problem-solving and post-session tasks

  • Tutorial 1 - Data workflows

    Tutorial 2 - Project organisation

    Wrap up individual discussions

    LIVE session - project presentations and review

Skills You Will Develop

Bring athlete physical data to life…

Benchmark and compare individual athletes…

Visualise moving trends in data over time….

Visualise comparisons between athlete groups…

Unlock hidden insights with analytical interactions…

Detect real and meaningful changes within data…

Examples of the collaborative nature of our group mentorship program

Supporting your growth….…but challenging your potential

Tutorials take you from A to B. But your world has unique challenges and considerations. Copy-and-paste approaches don’t work. You spend just as much time troubleshooting.

We focus on supporting you and being with you in the learning process.

Take a look at an extract from a LIVE mentorship session, driven by the problems facing the practitoners enrolled.

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