Christopher T. Franck

Christopher T. Franck is an associate professor of statistics at Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from North Carolina State University in 2010.

Recent Articles

Our Oscars Algorithm Predicted the Best Picture Winner. Tell Us Your Guesses, Too

We’re still not over it.Last year, we used high-octane statistics to predict the winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, based on 69 years of data from four different awards ceremonies. Our model, which...

By Chris Wilson and Christopher T. Franck

We Taught a Computer to Guess the Best Picture at the 2019 Oscars

Our algorithm revealed three key factors that best predict each year's Best Picture winner

By Chris Wilson and Christopher T. Franck
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