03 Dec

Posted at 12:23h in Film Fundamentals
What do the last election and modern Hollywood have in common?  I mean, aside from ridiculous out-of-control budgets and delusional assumptions. The answer is data analytics. For example, Mitt Romney really thought he was going to win the election because of his polling data and his use of Orca, the database system that was supposed to do almost everything (including coffee, I suspect). However there were fatal flaws in their methodology on the polling data, and Orca blew up on election day morning.

11 Oct

Posted at 08:25h in Credit Spectrum

Moneyball by Michael Lewis is a story of the Oakland Athletics, an under-capitalized baseball team managed by Billy Beane. Unable to afford expensive talent, Beane turns to sabermetrics, baseball statistics that measure in-game performance, to select a lineup of cheaper players with lopsided abilities. Beane's own...