Average Joes: College Football Predictions

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"Average Joes" is a blog series dedicated to doing cool things with data powered by the Alteryx platform. Each article in the series will contain a video that walks you through a fun Alteryx use case.

Today's video covers how to use Alteryx Machine Learning to get predictions for the number of games won by college football teams:

Average Joe's College Football Predictions.mp4

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Resources for this post:

• Source data: Kaggle 

• Data Prepared for Machine Learning in: Alteryx Designer

• Predictive Model and projections done in: Alteryx Machine Learning

• Book an Alteryx Machine Learning Demo! 

Special thanks to Jeff Kortis (@JeffK), Ellen Wiegand (@ellen-wiegand), Rey Goicochea (@reygoicochea), and Patrick Kingston (@p2kingston)  

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[CW95]

This is awesome! Would love to see one predicting the Superbowl Champion come NFL playoff time!