README.md

NBA 2024-25 Season Dashboard

This project scrapes NBA 2024-25 Season boxscores from Basketball Reference and stores it into a local Postgres database. The scraping script and postgres database is containerized using Docker.

Usage

1. Set up Docker Desktop

2. Run the command mv dev.env .env and fill in the necessary variables

3. Build the containers using the command docker compose build

4. Run the containers using the command docker compose up -d

   • Each time the containers start, the script scrapes boxscore data from Basketball Reference

5. To have the latest data, run the command docker compose start or start the containers through the Docker Desktop application

Visualization

A PowerBI dashboard was created which can be interacted with through this link. Several measures were created using complex DAX queries to create some of the more interesting visuals. Snapshots of the dashboard can be seen below.

Team Stats Overview Page

Team Raw Stats Page

Team Specific Stats Page

Player Stats Overview Page

Player Raw Stats Page

Player Specific Stats Page

Player History Stats Page

Scatter Plot Correlation Page