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Ben Zauzmer is an assistant general manager with the New York Mets, and he’s better known publicly for his book Oscarmetrics and his Twitter account @BensOscarMath, where he uses data to project winners of the Academy Awards. With this year’s Oscars ceremony coming on March 10, Ben joins Expected Value to talk about…
- How he got into the Oscars predictions business
- Creating an Oscars model from scratch
- The variables that go into his calculations
- Projecting nominees vs projecting winners
- Explaining probability
- Factoring in betting markets
- Reaction from the film community
- Majoring in applied mathematics at Harvard
- Course and skills recommended to aspiring analysts
- His favorite movie and favorite Best Picture winner
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