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Three Strikes but Make Them Data Science Languages (R, Python, Julia)

Baseball
Nick Wan Hackathon
Kaggle Competition
Published

March 19, 2025

Reds Hackathon 2025 Entry (Link)

Finished 2nd

This is the code notebook to go along with my submission for Nick Wan’s “Predict strikeouts with new MLB arm angle data” competition. It’s finals week here at UCLA, so I didn’t have time to really dig into this project. But what I did decide to do was make models in R, Python, and Julia! At its core, it’s a simple model using just the ~150k rows with two strikes in the training set. I believe that this choice allows a much more straightforward process as our train data is more comparable to the test data.

To read my notebook, click here!