Joshua Fink
Associate Vice President Of Basketball Data Science
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Fink is a statistician and probabilistic programmer who leads basketball data science at the San Antonio Spurs, now serving as Associate Vice President after more than a decade in sports analytics. He combines advanced Bayesian methods, probabilistic programming and scalable tooling (R, Python, Spark, SQL, and JavaScript visualizations) to turn play-level data into strategic insights for basketball operations. Trained as a sociologist with a PhD and an MS in statistics, he uniquely bridges social science rigor and computational practice to study sports, social structure, and crime. His research has been presented internationally and featured in outlets like The Atlantic, and he also teaches at the University of Texas, bringing academic perspectives directly into pro sports decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Sociology at Duke UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA) Sociology, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Sociology at Pepperdine University
Spanish, English
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Github contributions (5)
joshjfink/joshjfink.github.io
Nov 2015 - May 2023
Contributions:35 pushes in 7 years 7 months
joshjfink/MCMCtab
Mar 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:44 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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