Making Decisions with Data

[00:01:20] – (First Question) – How quantitative analytics have evolved in sports and how they’re being used

[00:04:26] – Best role of humans in the analysis process

[00:08:38] – Sports that are most interesting to observe through analytics

[00:10:26] – How does luck play into sports analysis

[00:11:54] – Team analytics vs better analytics

[00:12:38] – Concentration of success among sports betters and their moats

[00:14:58] – Favorite lessons learned from professional gamblers

[00:16:45] – How analytics got introduced into gambling

[00:19:21] – Understanding one’s own biases

[00:24:04] – How he became VP of analytics at Twitter

[00:28:37] – Primary lessons from the work evaluating human capital and talent with analytics

[00:31:40] – How to model people for success when hiring

[00:33:29] – How to hire the right data scientists’ team

[00:37:54] – Most interesting problems they tackled at Twitter

[00:42:31] – Responsibility of social platforms to police itself

[00:45:34] – Areas that would interest him in the future as an investor

[00:49:24] – Kindest thing anyone has done for Jeff

[00:51:50] – Values instilled in him by his parents