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What to Think, Ep. 44: Using big data to improve your March Madness bracket

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It’s a sports-analytics startup…that ended up getting started after chief executive Nik Bonaddio won $100,000 on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”

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On this week’s episode of What to Think, VentureBeat’s Dylan Tweney and I spoke with Bonaddio about how sports broadcasters and sports fans can use data. We also begged him to tell us who he thought will come out on top during March Madness. (No, I’m not going to tell you. You’ll just have to hear him say it.)

Plus, on this week’s podcast we tell you what to think about:

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