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Re:Nate Silver: Some personal news by labster on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @07:55PM (#35795915)
What interest would the Mouse have in numerical models? They want entertainment IP, not weird programs that they have no experience marketing or hiring people to run. They’re not just going to transfer it over to Pixar so the guys behind Cars 2 can predict the next election.

Disney wants the talent. It’s just not as valuable to them as keeping Nate happy

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Re:Nate Silver: Some personal news by alkibiades on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @08:04PM (#35795984)
given that they own abc news and espn among others, they have a lot of interest
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Re:Nate Silver: Some personal news by Reubachi on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @03:11PM (#35806445)
Disney is a multi industry conglomerate interested in understanding/manipulating public policy and political trends through numerical models in the same way you would be interested in your local politics and it's trends.

They're also not just after "entertainment IP". In fact I'd say they are one of the premier proprietary data analytics orgs with respect to park management, fast passing, queuing. Same with Market Research on film/animation, they've quite literally been doing it since it's been a thing.

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