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🏀 Visualization of NBA games from raw SportVU data logs
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Repeated scenes and understanding event partition #9

Open FerranAlet opened 6 years ago

FerranAlet commented 6 years ago

If you visualize some of the consecutive events they seem to be the exactly the same. Comparing them programatically confirms that.

Why are there such repetitions? Is it intentional to signal something in particular?

Also, what is the criteria for separation between events?

pousT commented 6 years ago

@FerranAlet This is because some events are corresponding to the same game period, e.g. a shooting event and a foul can happen simultaneously. Also, from my experience, the play-by-play event ids do not perfectly match.