Category: Projects

Using Computer Vision and a Random Forest Model to Process College Football Videos

Introduction I contend that no college football fanbase has a more unfortunate balance of perceived potential of their team vs the actual performance on the field than the University of Michigan. Though the message board posts on the most prominent Michigan sports blog, MGoBlog, have had a decidedly pessimistic tone for the past couple years, I don’t know a Michigan… Read more →

Finding Favorite Directors, Writers, and Actors with Pandas and Python

Since early 2011 I have been using the website Jinni.com to get recommendations on movies and TV shows. Through rating movies on a 1-10 scale, Jinni built an impressive personal taste profile based on a huge variety of factors. It’s been a valuable tool in helping me discover movies I had never even heard of before. This was all great, except… Read more →