{"284571":{"#nid":"284571","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Method Picks NCAA Champ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDon\u0027t stress over filling out that NCCA Tournament bracket. Joel Sokol,\u0026nbsp;Fouts Family Associate Professor at ISyE, explains how the Logistic Regression Markov Chain (LRMC) method knows who\u0027s going to win it all. Hint: Pick Louisville.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarch Madness isn\u0027t just about basketball. It\u0027s also partly the madness around the plethora of data used to predict the winner of the annual NCAA Tournament.\u2028\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith such a wide variety of potential data \u2013road\/neutral records, per-possession statistics and injury updates are just a few \u2013 it\u2019s no wonder that there are so many different team rankings, meta-rankings and NCAA Tournament predictions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContinue reading on the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amplifier.gatech.edu\/articles\/2014\/03\/georgia-tech-method-picks-ncaa-champ\u0022\u003EAmplifier\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Amplifier, a multi-contributor blog pairing current issues with commentary from Georgia Tech experts, provides a forum for sharing, \u0022What does Georgia Tech think?\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDon\u0027t stress over filling out that NCCA Tournament bracket. Joel Sokol, Fouts Family Associate Professor at ISyE, explains how the Logistic Regression Markov Chain method knows who\u0027s going to win it all. Hint: Pick Louisville.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Don\u0027t stress over filling out that NCCA Tournament bracket. Joel Sokol, Fouts Family Associate Professor at ISyE, explains how the Logistic Regression Markov Chain method knows who\u0027s going to win it all. Hint: Pick Louisville."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2014-03-20 15:20:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:03","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-03-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"284581":{"id":"284581","type":"image","title":"Joel Sokol predicts NCAA champ with the Logistic Regression Markov Chain (LRMC) method","body":null,"created":"1449244216","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:50:16","changed":"1475894978","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:38","alt":"Joel Sokol predicts NCAA champ with the Logistic Regression Markov Chain (LRMC) method","file":{"fid":"199009","name":"12c3046-p1-002.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/12c3046-p1-002_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/12c3046-p1-002_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2303343,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/12c3046-p1-002_0.jpg?itok=jRIEvwGw"}}},"media_ids":["284581"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["matt.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}