Another good week for the NBA predictor: correct predictions for 39/53 = 73.6% of the games played. This is an excellent result considering our algorithm had a difficult time cross-validating with this week’s results from last year. Also, the 76ers won a game - there goes one of our sure-thing predictions.
Predictions for next week are up. We are also working on a nice dynamic visualization for our NBA content - coming soon!
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.