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For those that follow the debate around Michael Lewis’ Moneyball and its effect on front office strategy there is a fantastic article over at The Hardball Times. For the uninitiated, Moneyball follows Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane during the summer of 2002 as the team attempted to implement a different strategy to make his [...]
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The NY Times had a great article yesterday profiling the increasing fortunes for advanced statisticians. As the world has become more data-driven and flush with raw numbers, the need to derive sophisticated insights from all that data has increased. Data does not speak for itself: The new breed of statisticians tackle that problem. They use [...]
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The Lords of Strategy
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