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blog.smellthedata.com is a personal blog at blog.smellthedata.com about data and math. Since 2009, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Using Machine Learning to Predict March Madness Results”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for statistical analysis of data: a critique of a poll, and a March Madness prediction model built on about 5,000 games of season scores.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Using Machine Learning to Predict March Madness Results2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-03-19
- Analysis of Nate Silver's Analysis of Oklahoma Student Poll Pollster Fraud 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-09-27
What Hacker News says?
A few memories of Sam from a Toronto machine learning student: http://blog.smellthedata.com/2010/01/sam.html
Comment linking /2010/01/sam.html
on “Researcher Sam Roweis took his own life last night. Here's one of his lectures.”Submitted Netflix prize tribute: Recommendation algorithm in Python as a story · 71 points
HN discussionAn analysis of the post: http://blog.smellthedata.com/2009/09/analysis-of-pollster-fr...
Comment linking /2009/09/analysis-of-pollster-fraud-and-oklahoma.html
on “Are Oklahoma Students Really This Dumb? Or Is Strategic Vision ...”Submitted Machine Learning for Human Memorization as a story · 40 points
HN discussionThe data there has the scores from ~5000 games played over the course of each season, and the model he links to also seems quite reasonable to me: http://blog.smellthedata.com/2009/03/data-driven-march-madne... Don't think of it as two data points. Think of it as two data sets.
Comment linking /2009/03/data-driven-march-madness-predictions.html
on “Data for 2009 + 2010 March Madness. Can your algorithm predict the tourney?”Submitted Choosing a First Machine Learning Project: Start by Reading or by Doing? as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted George Dahl: Machine Learning for March Madness as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analysis of Nate Silver's Analysis of Oklahoma Student Poll Pollster Fraud as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resources for Learning about Machine Learning as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data for 2009 + 2010 March Madness. Can your algorithm predict the tourney? as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Conversation starter: Machine learning in one sentence as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Official March Madness Predictive Analytics Challenge as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Selection Sunday: Is your March Madness prediction algorithm ready? as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Predicting March Madness as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Predicting March Madness: On Tournament Structure and Bracket Scoring Rules as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fundamental Limits of Locality as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bayesian NBA Basketball Predictions as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Got machine learning? Prepare your algorithms for data-driven March Madness 2010 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2011 March Madness Predictive Analytics Challenge Announcement as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Algorithm to Generate Impossible Art? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scientific Controversies and Hot-button Issues as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visualizing the March Madness Field using Machine Learning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How are the machines doing at predicting March Madness? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing Intuitions about Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Do I have a bug? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2011 Algorithmic March Madness: Machines Lock in Victory over Humans as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dr. Scott Turner on March Madness: The Pain Machine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My 2011 March Madness Predictions using Probabilistic Matrix Factorization as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Machine Learning to Predict March Madness Results as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using machine learning to predict March Madness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machines Predict March Madness 2013 as a story · 1 points
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