As I dozed off last night my mind wondered off on a tangent... And I began to dream about Charlie, the mathematical genius in the CBS series "Numb3rs" (in Spain its on La Sexta) putting his mind to create a mathematical system to predict fashion trends. I know, completely crazy, but hey! it was a dream.
The funniest thing was that Charlie was a bit befuddled when he had to talk to "classic" coolhunters. He couldn't understand how such an industry had been built on hunches and odd bits of data that have very little to do with statistics. And so he set about building a more analytical and exact system, while wondering why an industry that is supposedly so hell bent on individuality, creativity and "being different" is simultaneously so in need of conforming to trends... Unfortunately I did not get to see the end of the episode, because my alarm clock went off, so I can't share with you what his new, improved system for making trend predicitions. But hey, maybe this story line will make it to the screenwriters that actually do work on the series, and they can create an appropriate, mathematically driven, theory.
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