Jill Reiner & Ella Summer - NFL Big Data Bowl winners Expected Value
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Jill Reiner and Ella Summer won the college division of this year’s NFL Big
Data Bowl, which asked participants to “evaluate defensive performance on
passing plays.” In these conversations, Jill and Ella will talk about….
- What they’re studying in school
- How they got interested in the Big Data Bowl and decided to join the
competition
- Their approaches and methodologies in evaluating pass defense performance
- What surprised them as they dove into the data
- What next steps they’d ideally take to examine the topic further
- Keys to communicating their work effectively
- Other work they’ve done in sports analytics
Then TruMedia’s Andy Cox, who was a Big Data Bowl judge, joins the show to
discuss the process of evaluating entries, along with what Jill and Ella
did well.
Show links
- Follow Jill on Twitter: @jillhreiner
- Follow Jill’s black labs on Instagram: @archieandbodie
- Jill’s Big Data Bowl submission on Kaggle
- Denison interview with Jill
- Follow Ella on Twitter: @EllaSummer17
- Ella’s Big Data Bowl submission on Kaggle
- Announcement of Big Data Bowl winners
- Watch the Big Data Bowl winners and presentations
- Ben Baldwin’s Big Data Bowl summary on The Athletic
- Follow TruMedia on Twitter: @TruMediaSports
Listen here or wherever you get podcasts: Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher
, TuneIn
Jill Reiner and Ella Summer won the college division of this year’s NFL Big
Data Bowl, which asked participants to “evaluate defensive performance on
passing plays.” In these conversations, Jill and Ella will talk about….
- What they’re studying in school
- How they got interested in the Big Data Bowl and decided to join the
competition
- Their approaches and methodologies in evaluating pass defense performance
- What surprised them as they dove into the data
- What next steps they’d ideally take to examine the topic further
- Keys to communicating their work effectively
- Other work they’ve done in sports analytics
Then TruMedia’s Andy Cox, who was a Big Data Bowl judge, joins the show to
discuss the process of evaluating entries, along with what Jill and Ella
did well.
Show links
- Follow Jill on Twitter: @jillhreiner
- Follow Jill’s black labs on Instagram: @archieandbodie
- Jill’s Big Data Bowl submission on Kaggle
- Denison interview with Jill
- Follow Ella on Twitter: @EllaSummer17
- Ella’s Big Data Bowl submission on Kaggle
- Announcement of Big Data Bowl winners
- Watch the Big Data Bowl winners and presentations
- Ben Baldwin’s Big Data Bowl summary on The Athletic
- Follow TruMedia on Twitter: @TruMediaSports
Listen here or wherever you get podcasts: Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher
, TuneIn
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