Predicting AFL Winners

Australian’s have been notorious for their addiction to gambling. Unfortunately, judging by the growth of bookies, it doesn’t seem as though we’re very good at it. This project uses Logistic Regression among other techniques to predict which team would win in a game of AFL. However, to further reduce the human elements involved, our model incorporates the use of a fractional Kelly Criterion to advise on how much we should bet.

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Scraping for jobs with Scrapy

Looking for work can be one of the most tiring, long winded processes out there. Wouldn’t it be so much easier if someone just gave you a list of all the jobs out there in an excel spreadsheet sorted by high/low paying jobs? Well, that’s exactly what this project aims to do. I created a script using Scrapy to search through indeed for 1000 jobs that are related to our key words.

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