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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
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