Billy Beane is the baseball general manager portrayed in the bestselling book and feature film, "Moneyball."

Beane's story – of implementing a statistical methodology that led the Oakland A's, one of the worst teams in baseball with one of the lowest payrolls, to six American League West division titles – inspired the world with the possibilities of big data analytics.

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