Transcript
Introduction
Patrick
My guest this week is Jeff Ma. Jeff was on the famous MIT Blackjack team from the book Bringing Down the House, but spent his career in and around the fields of analytics and data science. He's studied sports betting and analytics, built companies for analyzing human capital, and ran the data science and analytics group at Twitter. You can find links to his book and podcast in the show notes. Our discussion today is on a number of fascinating ways that data is being used to make decisions in the worlds of sports and in business. Please enjoy.
Sports Analytics
Patrick
So, like a Billy Beane Moneyball-type story or from a money-making standpoint, the horse racing in Hong Kong-type story, typically always come back to quantitatively analytics. So, tell me a bit about how you think the state of the art is today. A lot of people know Moneyball, but what has evolved the most? How have analytics and the sophistication of the users of those types of systems evolved?