From time to time, I get asked what kinds of tools I use to do some of the soccer analytics work that I talk about here.  I've thought about it and felt that perhaps I should write a list here.  I performed my coefficients work on my Windows laptops, but for everything else I've switched to my Linux notebook machine.

• Programming languages
• • C/C++
  • Perl
  • Python
  • XML
• Database packages
• • OpenOffice Base (mySQL)
  • PostgresSQL
  • Treshna BOND/BONDDB
• Mathematical/Statistical packages
• • Scilab
  • R
• Text editing
• • UltraEdit (I had to pay, but well worth it)
  • gedit
  • vim
• Publication/presentation packages
• • LaTeX
  • LyX
  • Prosper/Beamer class
  • OpenOffice Impress

The reader can sense a theme with the type of software that I use.  My analytics work has definitely allowed me to expand my math and programming expertise in interesting directions, and I've picked up some additional skills as well (e.g. database programming).