KEEPING OUR FINGER ON THE PULSE 2019

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 This is an archival post from Black History Month 2016, and UCLA PULSE.

JAY TUCKER

AVA DUVERNAY

KENDRA FERGUSON

KEN McNEELY

JOHN DONOVAN

CHARLES KING

MAURICE DUCARD

JEFF CLANAGAN

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Dakar attended the Pulse conference at the invitation of Jay Tucker, who is one of the preeminent Big Data Shoguns in digital helping to sift through volumes of data available about consumer behavior emerging from online sources, set-top boxes, smartphones and old-fashioned retail sales has become a tidal wave that threatens to overwhelm even the most sophisticated analysts.

The need for expertise in sorting through the deluge for kernels of insight is turning data scientists into the A-listers of media and entertainment.

“The analysts are the rock stars of Hollywood, studio heads can get lost (in data) if they’re not smart about it, and that’s where Jay Tucker and his panel patch us in on where the next KPI’s are coming from. The promise and peril of working with big data was de-mystified  in this session that focused on TV measurement, advertising sales, film tracking and content creation.

The panelists noted the need for the entertainment industry to put as much emphasis on using granular data in decision making as it does to tracking ratings and box office. “Twitter is the world’s largest focus group, there’s a much bigger opportunity in moving data to the leading edge (of product development) rather than measuring after the fact.”

UTA head of research Dave Herrin  weighed in his new proprietary service for film tracking: “We need to think of tracking not as predictive tool but as away to make informed decisions along the way.”  Big Data magic in the air as industry titans forge new data-enhanced ways of doing business.   Big Data is stitching together audience information from multiple sources.  Big Data provide that moment when the client(s) understand how they can use “bite-size” bits of data to advance their careers. Big Data is being used underpin tens of millions of dollars in talent deals.