Speaker Profile

Seth Partnow is the Director of Basketball Research for the Milwaukee Bucks. Seth has been with the Bucks since the 2016 offseason. Before that, he was lead writer and managing editor of The Nylon Calculus, a leading basketball analytics website. Seth previously worked as an educational consultant focusing on issues of cross-cultural communication and learning styles in Alaska. Though a very different context, this experience honed the skills needed to successfully navigate the often difficult divide between data science and statistics on one hand and sport-specific expertise on the other. Seth is originally from Anchorage, Alaska and has a B. A. in Economics from Carleton College where he played basketball and ultimate intercollegiately, and a J. D. from University of Minnesota. He lives in Milwaukee with his wife and two children.