Jeopardy Champion Trains with Custom Web App
By Rob Scott
November 23, 2011
November 23, 2011
- Roger Craig, who defeated Ken Jennings’ single-game winnings record on “Jeopardy,” says he used an app created specifically to help him train for the competition.
- “A computer scientist with a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware, Craig built an app that used an archive of past ‘Jeopardy’ questions to help identify show trends and the strengths and weaknesses of his own knowledge base,” reports Digital Trends.
- For example, Craig’s app dtermined: “…questions with the highest value typically come from certain academic fields (like science or architecture), while low-value questions usually come from topics like food or more mainstream subject matter. With the app, he was able to identify specific academic and mainstream topics he needed to study more (like fashion).”
- Digital Trends has posted video coverage of Craig’s recent presentation at the Quantified Self Show & Tell conference, in which he provides details about the app.
- The “Jeopardy” champion has plans to create an iPhone version of his app for the public.
Topics: App, Apple, iOS, iPhone, Jeopardy!, Ken Jennings, Quantified Self Show & Tell, Roger Craig, Web App
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