Data Science + Hollywood

Netflix will spend six billion dollars next year on content, making the company a major player in Hollywood.  An increasing portion of this spend will be on original shows such as House of Cards, and original movies such as Beasts of No Nation.  As we continue to expand our involvement with Hollywood, we want to leverage data and data science to make the best decisions possible.  This talk will explore areas where we see the most opportunity to apply data science to Hollywood, and some early approaches we've taken.

Todd Holloway is a big data expert whose career has spanned two areas--artificial intelligence and data visualization. Most recently he built and leads the Data Science team at Trulia, which is applying machine learning, network science, NLP, and computer vision technologies to the large datasets found in the real estate domain. Previously he worked on AI and data visualization projects at AT&T, Ingenuity Systems, TheFind, and Amazon. Examples of his visualization work can be seen at abeautifulwww.com.