May 26, 2017
Andrew Landgraf (Statistics PhD '15) Wins 1st Place Prize in Kaggle's 2017 March Machine Learning Mania Competition
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In Kaggle's 2017 March Machine Learning Mania competition, data scientists were challenged to predict the NCAA men's college basketball tournament. This year's first place winner of the competition is Andrew Landgraf, a 2015 graduate of our statistics PhD program. Read his interview on Kaggle.com to learn about how he developed his winning strategy.