John Edwards

Introduction and methodology Last year I released my initial batch of March Madness projections for 2025!

Introduction and methodology Following up on my Kaggle March Mania top 40 finish from last year (in addition to my top 30 finish from 2021), I’m excited to share my Mach Madness projections for this year!

Introduction I sent out an open request a few weeks ago for potential blog post topics.

Introduction The Advent of Code (AOC) is a series of programming problems that are released daily from December 1st to December 25th, each problem more challenging than the last.

Introduction The Advent of Code (AOC) is a series of programming problems that are released daily from December 1st to December 25th, each problem more challenging than the last.

Introduction The Advent of Code (AOC) is a series of programming problems that are released daily from December 1st to December 25th, each problem more challenging than the last.

Introduction The Advent of Code (AOC) is a series of programming problems that are released daily from December 1st to December 25th, each problem more challenging than the last.

Stade de France; Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons I had the pleasure of competing in the Royal Statistical Society’s 2024 Olympics prediction contest.

Google I/O 2019; Alexander Shcherbakov, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Google I/O was this past week, and predictably, the focus was LLM-powered tools.

Introduction No matter what kind of project you want to tackle, you’re going to want the ability to understand what’s happening on a given play with the Big Data Bowl dataset.

Introduction There is no more frustrating feeling than finishing just shy of a podium position in a Kaggle competition.

I recently participated in a Kaggle community competition where the objective was to predict the point value of a word played on the 20th turn of a Scrabble game given a dataset of Scrabble games played on Woogles.io, an online Scrabble website.

As we reach the end of the 2021-22 college football season (the national championship game is unfolding on my TV as I type this), I wanted to take a look back at my performance in the College Football Data predictions contest.

The following was originally published on the CFBD Blog and has been reproduced here with edits for clarity.

Our approach is ensemble the shit out of everything.

The following was originally published on the CFBD Blog and has been reproduced here with edits for clarity.