I’m super late to the party this year, but I finally have some Survivor Season 37 rankings up! Below are rankings from Week 1 through Week 12 based on a machine learning approach I started back in Season 35. If this is your first time here, you can read all about the details of the project here. The quick and dirty version is that we use volunteers to collect data about player behaviors on...
It’s time for another season of Survivor and that means I’ll be back each week to discuss what machine learning has to stay about the potential winner of the season. If this is your first time here, you can read all about the details of the project here. The quick and dirty version is that we use volunteers to collect data about player behaviors on an episode by episode basis, then...
In my last post, I discussed a large Survivor-related project that I’m involved in where we have volunteers code episodes of Survivor by the observed behaviors that player’s exhibit. You can read all about that project here. One of the potential applications of this crowdsourced data is using machine learning models to predict winners. All the nitty gritty details are in my original...
A little over a year ago, I was contacted by Angie Caunce about participating in a data project related to Survivor. If you are a fan of RHAP, you’ll likely know who Angie is. She is the creator of The System, or the Angie Caunce Character Types, which I have written about before. I also built a website for this system CaunceTypes where you can explore every player of Survivor based on her...
Well I’m back again with a follow up project to my original Seinfeld Recap Podcast work that I posted about a few weeks ago (you can here me talk about this project here). The genesis of my latest project came from a suggestion by Mike Bloom. He had contacted me and suggested that it might be interesting to look at how different podcasts and their hosts use language. I started thinking...
It’s been quite a while since I’ve updated. I’ve had lots to post about, but other things have taken priority. Today’s update is going to be a little different, but I think it’s pretty fun stuff. Any of my readers that know me personally know that besides being obsessed with computers and research related things, my other passion is fitness and sports. In particular...
