Posts tagged Sports (2)

September 3, 2012

Top of the table: David Scott’s Super 15 success

This appeared in Uni News,  the internal University of Auckland magazine sent to a wide outside audience, a week or so after the end of the Super 15. David came top equal with sports writer Dylan Cleaver, and says he’ll be spending time over this summer “looking at some possible improvements to the prediction method”. Watch this space!

 

June 17, 2011

Brad Pitt uses statistics

Almost three months before it’s due to hit theaters, Sony Pictures has finally released a full-length trailer for Moneyball, an adaptation of Michael Lewis’ 2003 bestseller that chronicled how the Oakland Atheltics used data analysis and advanced calculations to field a winning baseball team on the cheap.

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