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Kirk Goldsberry
Kirk Goldsberry (born 1977) is a basketball writer. He was the vice president for strategic research for the San Antonio Spurs, the lead analyst for Team USA Basketball, and a visiting researcher at the Harvard Institute of Quantitative Social Sciences. He is best known for his sports writing and for pioneering the hexagonal shot chart in Advanced metrics#Advanced metrics in basketball, basketball analytics, and for being one of the leaders of the recent advanced metrics movement in basketball. Education Goldsberry earned a Ph.D. (2007) from University of California, Santa Barbara, UC-Santa Barbara where he studied Cartography and data visualization. He also holds a master's degree from University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB, and a bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University, Penn State (1999), where he majored in Earth science, Earth Science and Geography. He played basketball recreationally. Career Academia Following graduate school, Goldsberry served as an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kirk is a Scottish and former Northern English word meaning "church". It is often used specifically of the Church of Scotland. Many place names and personal names are also derived from it. Basic meaning and etymology As a common noun, ''kirk'' (meaning 'church') is found in Scots language, Scots, Scottish English, Ulster-Scots dialects, Ulster-Scots and some English language in England, English dialects, attested as a noun from the 14th century onwards, but as an element in placenames much earlier. Both words, ''kirk'' and ''church'', derive from the Koine Greek κυριακόν (δωμα) (kyriakon (dōma)) meaning ''Lord's (house)'', which was borrowed into the Germanic languages in late antiquity, possibly in the course of the Gothic Christianity, Gothic missions. (Only a connection with the idiosyncrasies of Gothic language, Gothic explains how a Greek neuter noun became a Germanic feminine). Whereas ''church'' displays Old English language, Old English Palatalization (phon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
