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Nick Walter

Chief Product Officer, Fliff · 1 appearance on the record.

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He founded the sports predictive analytics startup numberFire, which was acquired by FanDuel in 2015, where he served as Chief Product Officer. He later founded BigBrain, which was acquired by fantasy sports and betting company Fliff.

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284 words/min while actually speaking · 30.6 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Nick Walter: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,905 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

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Prediction Not checkable as stated
Walter: RFID sensors will track players in 3D within 3-4 years
“One of the biggest sort of, like, recent trends in sports is just capturing as much data as possible through RFID sensors and things like that. So you can imagine a future of maybe three or four years from now where each player, the ball itself, is, is connect…”
Nick Walter Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 56:46 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012
Disclosure
numberFire handles part of its predictive data modeling using Excel macros
“It's done on one hand, a lot of Python into R on one hand. Another part of it is actually done in Excel in a series of macros done by our chief analyst.”
Nick Walter Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 13:46 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012
Disclosure
Nick Walter funded numberFire with a $100,000 game show win
“I was the one who wants to be a millionaire with, ah, Regis Philbin about two and a half years ago. I ended up winning a 100,000 dollars on the show, and I promptly quit my job and, ah, did Numberfire.”
Nick Walter Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 2:19 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012 Dec 5, 2013 11m
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