How I Built a 2026 World Cup Predictor Dashboard (opens in new tab)

Let’s be honest: there is nothing quite like the feeling of moving a machine learning model off a messy local Jupyter Notebook and seeing it live, breathing, and clickable on the internet. A few weeks ago, I decided to tackle a fun challenge: predicting the knockout stages of the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup. Instead of just looking at standard text readouts on my terminal, I wanted to build a complete, interactive visual experience that anyone could play with. Here is the story of how I buil...