Eric Lundquist As winter fades to spring here at Northwestern I look forward to warmer weather, longer days, and the return of baseball. I’m certainly interested in the mechanics of the game itself: earned runs, home runs, box scores and the pennant race. However, there’s a deeper and harder to describe feeling found in walking…
Why Context Matters: Lessons from the Chicago Marathon
Valentinos Constantinou The term “big data” has been a staple of corporate executives and analytics strategists in recent years, and with good reason. The use of big data has resulted in numerous innovative uses of analytics, including Google’s use of big data to predict flu outbreaks days in advance of the CDC using search queries.…
The Anatomy of a Pitch
Theodore Feder A tactic in Major League Baseball that has become wildly popular in recent years has been the defensive shift. Teams shift by adjusting the positioning of their infielders to maximize the likelihood that a batted ball is converted into an out. While teams used fewer than 2,500 shifts in total in 2011, they…
My Summer as a Schneider Intern
Reposted from A Slice of Orange By Ahsan Rehman | Aug 31, 2015 Interns. Some companies view them as nothing more than coffee fetchers, but Schneider blew away my expectations of a summer internship. I’m a Master’s student at Northwestern with research experience at IBM, and this summer I gained some incredible real-world analytics experience. Hopefully my story…
MSiA Graduates and MSiA Director Collaborate with Anders Drachen on: Analyzing Auctions: The Case of Glitch
Analyzing Auctions: The Case of Glitch Link to the Original Post by Anders Drachen. (This post is a collaborative effort by Shawna Baskin (Blizzard, MSiA Alum ’13), Joesph Riley (Pandora, MSiA Alum ’13), Anders Drachen (GameAnalytics), and Diego Klabjan (Prof. at Northwestern University, Director of MSiA). Glitch When scientists want to understand the specifics of…