Matt Chang - NFL Big Data Bowl winner

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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

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