Hi, I'm Anthony Goldbloom, co-founder and CEO of Kaggle. Kaggle is the world’s largest community of data scientists and machine learners with over 1.4 million members. Data scientists come to Kaggle to compete in machine learning competitions, find and share open datasets and use Kaggle Kernels (Kaggle’s cloud based data science workbench). Before starting Kaggle, I was a statistician at the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Treasury, building models that forecast economic activity. The MIT Review has named me one of the top 35 innovators under 35 and Forbes has named me as one of the 30 under 30 in technology.

For the first time, Kaggle, Google Cloud, and the NCAA ® will join together for the largest data-driven bracketology competition to date. As part of our continued collaboration, we’ve partnered with the NCAA to make 10 years (2008-2018) of historical NCAA Division I men’s and women’s basketball data available. This competition will be your chance to forecast the outcomes of March Madness® for both the Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships.

In my spare time I do kitefoil racing. I've written a bunch of kitefoiling related apps:

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I will be here to answer your questions at 1pm ET.

EDIT: THANKS FOR THE QUESTIONS. THIS WAS MY FIRST REDDIT AMA. PLAN TO POP BACK LATER TODAY TO TRY TO ANSWER A FEW MORE QUESTIONS.