Back in the old days, there was no sure-fire indicator of box office poison more than a video game adaptation. That has changed in recent years and now all kinds of gaming mascots are getting their chance to appear in a major motion picture or, at the very least, a streaming series. They're now making a movie based on Shinobi, as reported by Deadline. For the uninitiated, Shinobi is a famous hack-and-slash game developed by Sega in which you play as a ninja. There have been plenty of sequels throughout the years, though they mostly share the same basic story.

One of Sega's most popular games, Shinobi, will be made into a movie in a joint project with Universal Pictures, the Japanese gamemaker announced Wednesday, aiming to emulate the success of "The Super Mario Bros. Movie." Sega did not give a target date for the release but said it had "started the development of a film production" with the Hollywood behemoth. Shinobi was originally created for Japanese arcades in 1987 and features a ninja character who fights to stop a criminal organization that kidnaps child ninjas. It is the latest effort to cash in on a video-game adaptation craze after "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" became the second-highest grossing film of 2023, following a 2020 adaptation of Sega's "Sonic the Hedgehog." "Shinobi is one of Sega's most popular series worldwide, along with Sonic the Hedgehog," Sega said on Wednesday.

With loads of content and hype about Data Science, Analytics and Big Data coming up every day, I felt compelled to share my journey and experiences in exploring this space. Here, I intend to begin a series of posts on the subject stripped it down to it's core (as I understand it) and than building upon it. While there are a whole bunch of directions these subjects could be approached from, I present here the path that I found most convenient to tread. I would like to call it the path of the'Data Shinobi' (another word for the'Ninja') where you understand and gain expertise in the techniques just enough and relevant to the task at hand unlike a seasoned'Data Scientist' who has mastered most of these techniques over many years. It must also be noted that when I mention the'Shinobi' it's in the context of the training that shinobi's underwent rather than their expertise and mastery over skills. To begin with, here's a list of 5 fundamental facts about Data Science which I discovered early on my journey: However, in most cases you have to wait for what feels like ages to get your data ready.