Matt Chang - NFL Big Data Bowl winner
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 Kaggle home page
