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About the episode
Matt is joined by Violaine Roussel, a professor of sociology at Paris 8 University, to discuss her new book, Data-Driven Hollywood: The New Data Professionals in the Age of Streaming, which polls 75 data scientists employed at streamers and studios to explain how modern studios use data to inform what they green-light, what the data departments look like inside these streamers, how Netflix uses things like “taste clusters,” and how creative choices have been reinvented over the past 15 years (02:43). Matt finishes the show with an opening weekend box office prediction for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (29:23).
Host: Matt Belloni
Guest: Violaine Roussel
Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Jessie Lopez, and Stefano Sanchez
Theme Song: Devon Renaldo