Rockford Students Use Stats to Compete with AI in Predicting Snow Days
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Students at Rockford High School are predicting snow days against an AI system called "Blizzard" to see who is more accurate.
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The 130 AP Statistics students use a statistical model to rank factors like storm hype, impact, timing, etc. to predict the chance of a snow day.
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Blizzard was created by a local software engineer and uses weather data and past school closure language to make its predictions.
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As of Tuesday, Blizzard was beating the students by a slim margin in terms of prediction accuracy.
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The competition was inspired by a similar project done by a late Holland Christian teacher to engage students in an applicable statistics exercise.