In a recent commercial from a very well-known brand, the NBA star Kevin Durant becomes the Head of a recruiting agency where with the help of other NBA stars like Dirk Nowitzki and Marco Belinelli, they scout for young talents using the latest visual analytic's tools available in the market!
reminds me of the movie "Moneyball" starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, where the duo create a baseball team based on number crunching; As this is based on a true story, all I can say is that the roots of news like this in your post go way back to the methods that the protagonists in this movie adopted, although with limited data processing tools. With Visual Analytics, the whole thing has scaled up to a grand new level :-)
ReplyDeleteI remember the movie and you are right. The way we are interconnecting big data with visual analytics today is only possible thanks to the progress made in technology over the last couple decades.. Who knows where the ceiling lies for this powerful technology binomial?
DeleteIn the meantime, however, you better keep working hard because you never know who is watching you..! ;-)