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Lorena Martin

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Data Sciences and Operations

PhD, BS, University of Miami; MS, Nova Southeastern University; Postdoctoral Fellowships, UC San Diego

Professor Martin teaches courses that range from introductory statistics to statistical computing and data visualization. Prior to USC, she was the Director of Sports Performance Analytics for the LA Lakers and Director of High Performance for an MLB team. She is a contributing author of Sports Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation 2nd edition, Improving Exercise Adherence, and sole-authored, Sports Performance Measurement and Analytics. As an academic, she received funding from the NHLBI, NCI, and NIMHD for researching how health behaviors and analytics can help reduce health disparities.

Lorena Martin
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Areas of Expertise

Analytics
Sports Business
Sports Performance

Departments

Data Sciences + Operations

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COURSES

Spring 2024
  • DSO-499
    Special Topics
    Selected topics reflecting current trends and recent developments in data sciences, information systems, operations management, and statistics. May be repeated only if topic is different.
  • DSO-560
    Text Analytics and Natural Language Processing
    Acquire, analyze, visualize and perform natural language processing (NLP) on text data. Apply Python, machine learning packages, statistical methodology and computer code to business decision-making.
  • DSO-579
    Advanced Sports Performance Analytics
    Implement supervised and unsupervised machine learning models to a specific sports performance analytics scenario. Help assess and predict performance.
Fall 2023
  • DSO-545
    Statistical Computing and Data Visualization
    Data cleaning and reshaping; good vs. bad graphics; univariate, bivariate, trivariate, hypervariate and time series graphics; interactive graphics; web-related computing.
  • DSO-560
    Text Analytics and Natural Language Processing
    Acquire, analyze, visualize and perform natural language processing (NLP) on text data. Apply Python, machine learning packages, statistical methodology and computer code to business decision-making.
  • DSO-578
    Fundamentals of Sports Performance Analytics
    Statistical models for pro sports industry business application. Effectively communicate findings for practical actionable results. Sports science data protocol.