I deal with numbers every day, but I’m not in analytics. My team analyst does an amazing job of visualizing data, which makes finding those needles in haystacks so much easier than looking over rows and rows of numbers which can make you go cross-eyed pretty quickly.
When I came on board to write at Talking Chop, I had some ambitious goals out of the gate, and I still do. However, a thought occurred to me about how I can apply learnings from my job to writing about baseball.
However, I think that an area of weakness for baseball is in visualizing data.