Big Data, Algorithms and Moneyball Medicine – Part I

I finally got around to watching Moneyball this week. Great film. Roger Ebert points out that the film “isn’t so much about sports as about the war between intuition and statistics.” (I’ll let you guess who wins if you haven’t seen the movie). The main character was neither Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) nor Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) so much as a set of algorithms the Billy and Peter characters implemented to build a winning baseball team at low cost. I’ll go out on a limb and declare it the greatest statistics movie ever. (It’s a short list of great statistics movies.)

And it’s timely.