Listen "Matt Chang - NFL Big Data Bowl winner"
Episode Synopsis
Matt Chang and his team won the 2024 NFL Big Data Bowl, an analytics competition with a $25,000 first prize. In this episode, Matt will discuss…- His team’s submission, entitled Uncovering Missed Tackle Opportunities- What the Big Data Bowl is and how he and his team became interested- The data and question provided by the NFL- Attacking that question through trial and error- Creating a metric and its components- Making the outputs easy to understand- Ideal next steps with their metric- Advice for anyone looking to enter contests like the Big Data BowlShow Links- Kaggle notebook for Matt’s team’s winning submission- Video of Matt’s team’s presentation- Matt’s advice for future Big Data Bowl contestants- Big Data Bowl home page- Big Data Bowl Kaggle home page- Matt’s transition from hardware to machine learning- Follow Matt on Twitter and LinkedIn
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