CMNS 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Big Data, Oakland Athletics, Society For American Baseball Research
23 Jan 2018
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Innovation = new info = reaction, sometimes despite good data or bad data. Baseball abstract during his time as a security guard at pork and beans; it demonstrated the patterns of baseball. Society for american baseball research and sabermetrics (sabr). Information collection requests were denied by the league, people went to games to collect data themselves, the sabr community grew through internet (networks). Failures of scouts to see something in beane. Big data as new ways of seeing: threatens known ways. Problems of translation, communication, culture, etc context phenomena; milleau of innovation (castell) = a centre related to a certain subject, e. g. , silicon valley for technology. It"s not just the innovation/tech that does this, the social relations running into people while buying coffee, etc. does this. Data mining of different industries outside of information. Nba: ibm advanced scout (computer program with data analytics) for nba coaches.
