A while back, a friend of mine, who is big into baseball, tried to encourage me to watch the movie: Moneyball, which is based on the true story of Billy Beane. I generally enjoyed the film, and how it portrayed data for the most part. Since this movie was about how data changed the world of baseball, I figured, why not? And like any writer, I then made the obvious leap, “why not make it the first in a series of posts about movies with a data based theme?” This is basically how most ideas get started, honestly. Everything is