Business analytics &
Big Data has not only got the business and technology industry excited, but
have influenced many movie-makers across the last few decades. It would be a
big miss for data scientists and business analysts alike if they don’t know
these good references to their field of work and passion.
Here are some interesting
movies with Big Data, predictive analytics, and machine learning embedded in
the story line.
Ex Machina :
Plot: Caleb, a 26 year old programmer at the world's
largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private
mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But
when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to
participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact
with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a
beautiful robot girl.
21 :
Plot: The movie is based on a true-story of five
highly intellectual Ivy League students who get trained by their professor in
card counting at blackjack. Using a combination of code talk and hand signals,
these students manage to win hundreds and thousands of dollars at casino after
Casino in Las Vegas.
Moneyball :
Plot: Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful
attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing
computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.
With the use of
historical data and predictive modeling to build a champion baseball team, this
true story is sure to delight both data scientists and sports enthusiasts.
I, Robot :
Plot: In 2035 a technophobic cop investigates a
crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat
to humanity.
A super computer called
VIKI, which stands for Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence, uses
truckloads of data and computational powers to take control of the world’s
robots. VIKI and its evil plans are eventually defeated by the protagonist with
the help of a friendly robot.
Minority Report :
Plot: In a future where a special police unit is
able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that
unit is himself accused of a future murder.
Crucial to this movie’s
story are the PreCogs, a small team of humans who can see into the future to
predict when the murder will be committed, by whom it will be committed, and
who will be the victim.
The PreCogs are the
source of future data for the PreCrime police unit, who are really the
super-smart “data scientists” doing the hard work. It’s down to this team to
solve the time-bound challenge of sifting through visual data and piece
together information that nails down the final details in order to prevent the
next crime.
It is fun watching these
movies while learning the use of Big Data Analytics & Machine Learning.
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