Introducing Expected Pot (xP) - A Snooker Stat
Professional snooker players are required to excel at a range of different skills, the most important being potting. Take a look at the image above, a game between Ken Doherty and Mark King. An interesting question here is “How likely is it Mark King will pot the blue ball”? In Football, a similar question would be “How likely is this player to score from here?” A statistic to answer this is Expected Goals (xG), which takes a shot and assigns it a score between 0 and 1....
UK vs US: The Machine Learning
Hi, I’m Sam Harding and I have just moved from the quiet shores of the UK, to the bustle of New York City. Since landing at JFK International, I have been looking for Machine Learning roles and I have noticed some interesting quirks. For last three and a half years I have been a Machine Learning Engineer for the leading global food delivery platform - Just Eat Takeaway.com. I thought I had a good understanding of what a Machine Learning Engineer did, but I was wrong....
Sam Harding
Hi there! My name is Sam - I am a Senior Machine Learning engineer, and have been doing interesting things across Machine Learning and Data engineering for the last 8 years. Danish Football and Sports Outside of ML, I have a big interest in danish football, and data across sports such as Track and Field and Snooker. Don’t be surprised to read (hopefully) interesting things about those on here! What am I doing right now?...