What I learned about Big Data and Machine Learning from trying to predict football matches. – Get Wide Ideas

The past few weeks we've talked a lot about the brand new algorithm that we have designed for Wide Ideas. The story behind Score, which is the name of the new functionality, is a bit interesting. Two years ago I asked myself if it in any way would be possible to use Machine Learning techniques to predict the outcome of football matches. Data mining To describe the process briefly I started by collecting as much data as I could get hold of. I mined data about old games from every different source and API I could find.