Matt, how many relevant data points would you expect someone to want to use for a decent outcome? You need huge data sets so if you're trying to predict it with 90% accuracy is 7 versus 8 you need at least as much data. Different problems require different amounts of data the one rule of thumb there is by the way somebody somebody or some committee seated the number one team as number one and the number 16 is number 16so they're using data to do that yes and that data.
Can machine learning predict the outcome of basketball games? On this episode of StarTalk: Sports Edition, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Gary O’Reilly, and Chuck Nice talk machine learning with computer scientist and author of The Factor Man, Matt Ginsberg.
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