The Lessons of Moneyball for Big Data Analytics

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7001767/moneyball-housto...

Mark Cuban owns the Dallas Maverick and is heavily into data analysis as well: http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/state-of-sabermetr...

It's a lot more interesting (and complex) in basketball than baseball in my opinion because it's more of a fluid sport where the actions of a player will directly affect those of the other nine.

Also I can't get over the fact that a movie about data will be shown this weekend in almost 4,000 theaters and will star one of the biggest movie stars in the world!

http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/2165...

So you can get his insights, straight from the horse's mouth, in a talk aimed at data geeks. For me, one of his main takeaway points was to question your assumptions. Always ask: "If we were to start again today, would we do things this way?" This exercise is used to tease out entrenched biases that you might not normally examine.

Because it was a keynote address, it should be publicly available on the O'Reilly youtube channel in the next few days, if not sooner: http://www.youtube.com/user/OreillyMedia#g/c/2543D0F253DD85C...