Celtics Demo

This demo provides a comprehensive guide on how to:

• Load data into Elasticsearch using Python.
• Write effective queries in Elasticsearch.
• Create insightful dashboards in Kibana.

The focus is on utilizing Boston Celtics data to showcase these processes.

Prerequisites

• This demo uses Elasticsearch version 8.11; if you are new, check out our Quick Starts on Elasticsearch and Kibana.

• Download the latest version of Python if you don’t have it installed on your machine. This example utilizes Python 3.12.1.

• You will use the nba_api package to get recent statistics about the Boston Celtics, Jupyter Notebooks, and the Elasticsearch Python Client. While testing this code, I got an error unless I had pandas installed since nba_data creates pandas DataFrames.

  To install these packages, you can run the following command.

  pip3 install nba_api jupyter elasticsearch pandas
  

• You will want to load a Jupyter Notebook to work with your data interactively. To do so, you can run the following in your terminal.

  jupyter notebook
  

In the right-hand corner, you can select where it says “New” to create a new Jupyter Notebook.

Getting help

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