The Cultural Economist
Anthony Palomba is an award-winning professor at UVA Darden teaching Data Storytelling and Media & Entertainment Business. His work blends machine learning, causal inference, and media economics. Newhouse MA, UF PhD, Purdue MS Econ (in progress).
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Stranger Things Redux
In my fervent and frenetic need to prove myself as a media economist/machine learning whatever, I pushed myself (and, frankly, pushed AI pretty hard too) to code and develop a tool that can break down movie and TV scripts in an organized an...
How Black-ish Became Popular-ish
Hi all!
As of writing this, I’ve just closed four sections of data storytelling with 171 MBA students…3,000 slides+, and 1,500+ charts later, I’m wiped out! I apologize for the delay here, and will be making this up in the next month with...
The Silence Before the Answer
There’s a particular kind of television criticism that mistakes economy for emptiness. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation attracted plenty of it during its fifteen-season run on CBS (2000–2015). Reviewers catalogued the show’s procedural formul...
The Grammar of Guilty Pleasure
There’s a particular kind of television criticism that mistakes simplicity for stupidity. 2 Broke Girls attracted plenty of it during its six-season run on CBS (2011–2017). Reviewers catalogued the show’s reliance on crude jokes, its thin p...
What Actually Makes People Come Back Next Week?
Netflix…really?
I was surprised they didn’t pull through on this one. Paramount’s aggressive posture suggests something deeper — not confidence, but pressure. Consolidation is accelerating. DOJ hurdles remain. Nothing is final. But the dir...
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Award-winning UVA Darden professor of Media & Entertainment Business. Research blends ML, causal inference, and media economics. MA in TV & Film (Syracuse Newhouse), PhD in Media (UF CJC), and MS in Economics (Purdue Daniels, in progress).
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