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I picked up Michael Lewis’ 2017 New York Times Bestseller, The Undoing Project because I loved Liar’s Poker, The Blind Side, and Moneyball. In Moneyball (2003), Lewis told of how Billy Beane (Brad Pitt in the movie) reinvented the cash-strapped Oakland Athletics by using data analytics to outsmart the richer teams. The Undoing Project is a kind of sequel to Moneyball. Lewis felt that in Moneyball he had only addressed one side of the equation: the data science. The other side

ScoreSheet™ is a tool that allows our clients to predict the odds of a candidate's projected success for a particular role. First we develop a set of tangible and intangible attributes, categorized and weighted according to our clients needs. Then, using data analytics and our proprietary algorithms, we provide a "predictive success index" for each candidate. This allows our clients to objectively assess and compare the odds of success for each prospective candidate, based pu