{"57521":{"#nid":"57521","#data":{"type":"news","title":"March Madness Meets Computer Nerds","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHow Stuff Works\u003C\/em\u003E - March 20, 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnce again, the United States plunges into that frenzied time we call March Madness. As I understand it, March Madness is a tournament in which various teams from higher education institutions throw orange balls at each other. Somehow this encourages people to make up complex sets of \u0022brackets\u0022 where \u0022teams\u0022 face off and the \u0022winner\u0022 moves up to the next round. I should probably point out here that I\u0027m a true tech nerd and know next to nothing about sports.  But some tech nerds love sports, and a few have put their analytical minds to the task of predicting the ultimate winner of the tournament. According to CNN, Joel Sokol of Georgia Tech created a statistical analysis program that predicts the winner of the 2009 NCAA tournament to be\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2009-03-20 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:25","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-03-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-03-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}