Public IPL analytics release
- An interactive Power BI dashboard analysing over 150,000 IPL ball-by-ball deliveries was published publicly. - The project combines Python, Excel and DAX to show toss impacts, venue scoring patterns and top performers. - The dataset and GitHub repo offer a practical, replicable template students can use to build sports-analytics portfolios (x.com).
A public Indian Premier League analytics project is now online, giving anyone an interactive Power BI dashboard built from ball-by-ball match data. (github.com) The GitHub repository says the dashboard processes 278,205-plus records across four normalized datasets and covers 18 seasons of IPL history. It includes the Power BI file, CSV data files and a README describing the workflow. (github.com) The underlying IPL data is the kind of delivery-by-delivery log cricket analysts use to track every over, batter, bowler and run event. A widely used public Kaggle dataset updated through the 2024 season lists separate matches and deliveries files and credits Cricsheet as the source. (kaggle.com) Microsoft describes Power BI dashboards as single-page visual summaries, and DAX, short for Data Analysis Expressions, as the formula language used for calculations in Power BI and Excel data models. That is the stack this project uses to turn raw cricket logs into filters, charts and calculated measures. (learn.microsoft.com 1) (learn.microsoft.com 2) Python sits earlier in that pipeline, where analysts usually clean and reshape raw tables before loading them into a dashboard. The pandas project, one of Python’s main data-analysis libraries, describes itself as a tool for working with labeled and relational data. (pandas.pydata.org 1) (pandas.pydata.org 2) That matters in cricket because the IPL generates a large, structured record every season across 10 franchises and dozens of matches. The official IPL site says the league is run by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, and the 2025 season alone featured 74 matches. (iplt20.com) (espncricinfo.com) Projects like this also give job seekers a concrete portfolio piece instead of a static résumé line. Microsoft’s training materials pitch DAX as a way to add calculations for dynamic analysis in Power BI semantic models, which is the kind of applied work recruiters can open, test and verify. (learn.microsoft.com) The repository frames the dashboard as an end-to-end analytics build, from raw CSV files to interactive visuals, with 33 custom DAX measures and an uploaded `.pbix` report file. For students trying to show they can move from data cleaning to presentation, that makes the project easy to copy, audit and adapt. (github.com) In practice, the release turns a familiar sports obsession into a reusable analytics template: open data, a documented workflow and a dashboard people can click through instead of just reading about. (github.com)
