Friday, May 07, 2010

Are Sportswriters Really Necessary?

BusinessWeek writes Are Sportswriters Really Necessary? about new software that generates sports stories based on the stats.

"There's no human author and no human editing,' says Stuart Frankel, 44, the company's CEO and a former executive at DoubleClick. 'But the stories sound really good.' Narrative Science licenses the software from Northwestern University, where a team of computer science and journalism professors developed the technology. "

Personally, I've already preferred reading box scores to prose to find out what happened in a game. I want the prose to tell me the why.

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