Combining Big and Small Data to Improve Athlete Performance

Combining Big and Small Data to Improve Athlete Performance
Hortonworks - San Jose Convention Center
David Epstein
Author
As sports have become high stakes, global competitions, the performance margins that differentiate good,great and legendary have shrunk dramatically. The importance of finding tiny advantages is greater than ever. Where Moneyball was once a novelty, now it is the norm in every sport as data is mined to find those vanishingly small advantages. And yet, even as sports are awash in data, much of it is applied to surprisingly little effect. David Epstein will discuss the importance of combining big data with cutting edge science about expertise to emerge with "small data": the kind that reveals where those tiny advantages are hiding.