Our NBA predictor did considerably better this week. In fact, it did better than we even expected/hoped. We had an accuracy of 40/51 = 78.4%, making up for last week’s lull.
Week 4 predictions are now up. This week set a high bar and our cross-validation indicates that the coming week may be harder to predict.. but we are still optimistic.
Dustin got a B.S in Engineering Physics from the Colorado School of Mines (Golden, CO) before moving to UC Santa Barbara for graduate school. There he became interested in Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Polymer Physics, studying the interaction between single DNA molecules and salt ions. After a brief postdoc at UC San Diego studying the physics of bacterial growth, Dustin decided to move into the data science business for good - he is now a Quantitative Analyst at Google in Mountain View.