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Re:Data for 2009 + 2010 March Madness. Can your algorithm pr... by CytokineStorm on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @12:13AM (#1180253)
How is one supposed to run any sort of machine learning algorithm with only two seasons of data? I could understand throwing the stats from the last 15-20 seasons into Weka and seeing what it said about 2010, but seriously how useful is only 2 seasons worth of data going to be?
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Re:Data for 2009 + 2010 March Madness. Can your algorithm pr... by dwine on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @12:22AM (#1180263)
The 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.

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Re:Data for 2009 + 2010 March Madness. Can your algorithm pr... by waterlesscloud on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @02:15AM (#1180393)
And being college teams, their ratings can change drastically over the course of more than a year or two...
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