Data Scientist

Data Scientist

This series is targeted at more advanced or expert analysts that aspire to be a Data Scientist or Sports Scientist at professional sports organizations.
11
Aug

Predicting Wins using k-Nearest Neighbors

In this week's newsletter, we feature another AI and hockey analytics topic on predicting game outcomes using k-nearest neighbors (KNN).
9 min read
03
Aug

Optimizing your Predictive Models

In this week's newsletter, we continue our AI series with a seventh newsletter on AI and Hockey Analytics and introduce you to how you can optimize your predictive models to make them stronger and better-performing.
9 min read
27
Jul

Driverless AI: Building the Perfect Predictive Model

This is the sixth newsletter in our AI and Hockey Analytics series. This week, we cover AutoML and how you can use it to create the perfect win prediction model using H2O.ai.
10 min read
20
Jul

Predicting Wins using Support Vector Machine Models

This week's newsletter continues the AI and Hockey Analytics series and covers how you can use Support Vector Machine (SVM) models to predict game outcomes.
12 min read
14
Jul

Predicting Game Wins using Logistic Regression

This week's newsletter introduces you to a common machine learning technique called Logistic Regression and shows you how you can use this technique to predict if NHL teams will win or lose their games.
14 min read
06
Jul

Finding the Top Snipers using K-Means Clustering

In this week's newsletter, we'll introduce you to K-means clustering and walk through an example where we use clustering to find the top ten NHL snipers.
10 min read
12
May

Overview of Goals Versus Threshold

Goals versus Threshold is an advanced statistic used by sports and data scientists to evaluate players and teams against a replacement statistic.
9 min read