Hey Reddit, I’m Anthony Goldbloom, founder of Kaggle. We recently teamed
up with Google Cloud and NCAA® to apply machine learning to forecast the
outcomes of March Madness®. AMA!
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Hi, I’m Anthony Goldbloom, co-founder and CEO of Kaggle. Kaggle is the
world’s largest community of data scientists and machine learners with
over 1.4 million members. Data scientists come to Kaggle to compete in
machine learning competitions, find and share open datasets and use
Kaggle Kernels (Kaggle’s cloud based data science workbench). Before
starting Kaggle, I was a statistician at the Reserve Bank of Australia
and the Australian Treasury, building models that forecast economic
activity. The MIT Review has named me one of the top 35 innovators under
35 and Forbes has named me as one of the 30 under 30 in technology. For
the first time, Kaggle, Google Cloud, and the NCAA ® will join together
for the largest data-driven bracketology competition to date. As part of
our continued collaboration, we’ve partnered with the NCAA to make 10
years (2008-2018) of historical NCAA Division I men’s and women’s
basketball data available. This competition will be your chance to
forecast the outcomes of March Madness® for both the Men’s and Women’s
Basketball Championships. In my spare time I do kitefoil racing. I’ve
written a bunch of kitefoiling related apps: two smart watch apps - a
training app and a wind reporting app a Strava App used Kaggle Kernels
to create a ranking system for kitefoilers (at last update, I was ranked
109). Proof I will be here to answer your questions at 1pm ET. EDIT:
THANKS FOR THE QUESTIONS. THIS WAS MY FIRST REDDIT AMA. PLAN TO POP BACK
LATER TODAY TO TRY TO ANSWER A FEW MORE QUESTIONS.