Evidence-Based Design

Selected items from my RSS reader.

• Cataclysm Parry: Part I
• Freakonomics - Hoop Data Dreams - Stephen J. Dubner - Steven D. Levitt - Boston Celtics - Basketball - N.B.A. - Statistics - New York Times Still, there remains a significant universe of basketball statistics that are simply not captured: each pass thrown and caught, each player’s position on the floor at a given time, any number of angles and proximities and nuances. Zarren lusts after such data and is quietly pushing for a technological solution that would produce it. One possibility: embed the floor of each N.B.A. arena with electronic sensors and have the players wear microchips in their sneakers.
• In Bid to Sway Sales, Cameras Track Shoppers - NYTimes.com