The 2011 movie "Moneyball" starring Brad Pitt, tells the story of how Oakland A's manager Billy Beane shuns the mainstream methods to scout and fill a major league baseball team roster, and instead uses data to an algorithm called sabermetrics to...
Yahoo introduced Genome yesterday at a splashy event in Soho, New York at the Internet Week headquarters, which was kicked off with a talk by Billy Beane, general manager of Major League Baseball's Oakland A's.
Yahoo also noted that searches for Billy Beane skyrocketed 623 percent the week “Moneyball” was released. Beane recently shared "Moneyball" tips for marketers at Covario’s INFLECTIONPoint 2012. Best Picture
Other conference highlights included Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane talking analytics and Forrester Research’s Josh Bernoff on social amplification and positive disruption. The sessions and networking time were predictably abuzz about the convergence...
Josh Bernoff was the Day Two keynote speaker at Covario’s INFLECTIONPoint event, following an excellent conference opening keynote on analytics by Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane. If you’re really lucky, staff members will actively try to cause trouble...
Billy Beane, the man on whose career the movie “Moneyball” is based, shared his story of building a successful baseball team against the odds with search marketers in Huntington Beach yesterday. Here are five tips from Billy Beane’s keynote...
As described in Michael Lewis’ “Moneyball”, Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane fielded the winningest team in baseball while spending half as much on player salaries as their nearest rival, the New York Yankees.
