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 Bowl Show 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 Rss Apple Podcaster →
