Where to start
I woke up the other morning and saw a Facebook ad about sports analytics and suddenly felt this is definitely something I want to do.
I am a mgmt consultant working in m&a and absolutely hate it. Money is good but not something I enjoy. What I enjoy is sports - watching and playing.
My plan - spend next 1 year learning and doing projects to build my portfolio and then try and switch.
My ask is 3 fold:
Is it a worthwhile plan or am I just building up hope with v little chances of success. (My wife jokes I am having mid life crisis)
As I understand i first need to build skills in analytics ( big data, python etc). Where and how do I start? I do lots of data analysis but mostly excel based.
How is or difficult is the industry to crack into as a newbie?
Happy to add more info if that helps.