Machine Learning: Predicting Soccer Games With Big Data

This is a guest post by Ola Lidmark Eriksson, CTO at Wide Ideas. Two years ago, I asked myself if it would be possible to use machine learning to better predict the outcome of soccer games. I decided to give it a serious try and today, two years and contextual data from 30,000 soccer games later, I've gained lots of interesting insights. To begin with, I harvested as many data points as possible. I mined old game data from every different source and API I could find.