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HoS: Jay Caspian Kang
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HoS: Jay Caspian Kang

Is the Analytics Movement dead? Can it thrive in politics?

Jay Caspian Kang writes about a little bit of everything and so, in our conversations, we discuss a little bit of everything. Today’s main topic is whether the Analytics Movement is past due in sports. Related, per new data-based analysis of Democratic Party woes, is politics about to get a visit from the analytics movement? Topics include but aren’t limited to…

  • Are Michael Jordan’s shoes actually objectively good looking?

  • Why did bloggers adopt analytics as a cause?

  • Was the analytics era about the truth, or about asserting dominance over jocks?

  • Did fans like the era of NBA strategy blogging?

  • Why Fantasy Sports sells a fantasy of what it’s like to be a GM

  • The folly of thinking data analysis can reveal how to run a political party

  • Ezra Klein stepping into the void to take charge of the Democratic Party

  • Does Gavin Newsom have a shot at the presidency or is it just the right that’s warming to him?

  • Is 80 percent of politics just who runs Twitter?

  • Are the millennial NBA stars like America’s boomers (in holding back progress through longevity)

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