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This Week's Artist
thesis sought to develop a statistical analysis method to determine the potential future success of emerging musical artists based on historical information.
During the creation of his thesis, Syp spent time conducting A&R Analysis at RCA Records as well as working at Next Big Sound, where he gained a better understanding of how an artist's social media data could be used to help more accurately predict their potential for future success.
Due to the more subjective artistic nature of music, the statistical analysis portion of A&R Moneyball will continue to evolve as social media sites come in and out of popularity and new tastemakers emerge. However, Syp was able to develop a series of best practices to employ through using data from blog aggregators, trending charts, and artist social media in order to predict which artists appear to have the brightest futures. These best practices are what fuel the selection of artists found on this website.
The artists featured on A&R Moneyball are selected using the methodology developed by music enthusiast and multi-instrumentalist
Tim Syp in his graduate thesis of the same name, completed in May of 2014 while earning his master's degree from New York University.
Heavily inspired by Michael Lewis' Moneyball, which chronicled the success of Billy Beane and Paul DePodesta to create a more financially efficient Oakland A's ball club through utilizing hard data to generate better informed decisions in a traditionally subjective industry, Syp's A&R Moneyball
