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Using Supervised Learning To Predict English Premier League Match Results From Starting Line-Up Player Data, Runzuo Yang Jan 2019

Using Supervised Learning To Predict English Premier League Match Results From Starting Line-Up Player Data, Runzuo Yang

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Soccer is one of the most popular sports around the world. Many people, whether they are a fan of a soccer team, a player of online soccer games or even the professional coach of a soccer team, will attempt to use some relevant data to predict the result of a match. Many of these kinds of prediction models are built based on data from the match itself, such as the overall number of shots, yellow or red cards, fouls committed, etc. of the home and away teams. However, this research attempted to predict soccer game results (win, draw or loss) …


Using Machine Learning Techniques To Predict A Risk Score For New Members Of A Chit Fund Group, Sinead Aherne Jan 2018

Using Machine Learning Techniques To Predict A Risk Score For New Members Of A Chit Fund Group, Sinead Aherne

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Predicting the risk score of new and potential customers is used across the financial industry. By implementing the prediction of risk scores for their customers a chit fund company can improve the knowledge and customer understanding without relying on human knowledge. Data is collected on each customer before they have taken out credit and during the time they contribute to a chit fund. Having collected the necessary data, the company can then decide whether modelling customer risk would benefit them. As the data is available historically, one aspect of risk score prediction will be the focus of this thesis, supervised …