Sensing the inevitability of falling victim to a bloodbath, Nielsen politely declined to participate in the TV big data session at this week’s TV of Tomorrow (TVOT) virtual event. Naturally, Nielsen was still one of the core topics of conversation – as panelists debated the future of people panels in the audience measurement marketplace. Just to rub salt in Nielsen’s weeping wounds, Comscore’s Chief Research Officer, Michael Vinson, was worshipped by some of his neighboring panelists as the future of this industry, as someone focused on figuring out how to bring accurate measurement products to market in the face of the harsh reality – which is that all data has limitations. Panels have problems. Set top data has problems. Automatic…