Matt Chang and his team won the 2024 NFL Big Data Bowl, an analytics competition with a $25,000 first prize. In this episode, Matt will discuss…

• His team’s submission, entitled Uncovering Missed Tackle Opportunities

• What the Big Data Bowl is and how he and his team became interested

• The data and question provided by the NFL

• Attacking that question through trial and error

• Creating a metric and its components

• Making the outputs easy to understand

• Ideal next steps with their metric

• Advice for anyone looking to enter contests like the Big Data Bowl

Show Links

• Kaggle notebook for Matt’s team’s winning submission

• Video of Matt’s team’s presentation

• Matt’s advice for future Big Data Bowl contestants

• Big Data Bowl home page

• Big Data Bowl Kaggle home page

• Matt’s transition from hardware to machine learning

• Follow Matt on Twitter and LinkedIn