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How Big Data Has Transformed Sports

BrainStation Technology

In a relatively short period of time, big data has become a big business in professional sports. The market for sports analytics is expected to reach almost $4 billion by 2022, and teams around the world are racing to find a competitive advantage. And big data played a big role. .

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Zartico secures $20M to help tourism offices promote local destinations

TechCrunch

Despite representing 10% of the world’s GDP, the tourism industry has been one of the last to embrace big data and analytics. ” Zartico launched in March 2020 — one week prior to most of the world shutting down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. conflict zones, protests, religious sites, clinics, etc.) or to places.”

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Black Swan analyzes social media to predict which products will be successful

TechCrunch

While founded long before the pandemic, Steve King says that Black Swan Data , the data science and tech company that he helped co-launch in 2011, is well-suited to the current environment. Prior to co-founding Black Swan, King was a technical director at creative agency Digital Jigsaw. to start Black Swan. .”

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AI in Media: Redefining Customer Experience with Immersive Stories

Trigent

Companies have started empowering these experiences through emerging technologies. Big data and artificial intelligence will create the most dramatic change, redefining how the industry can connect with all stakeholders and drive growth. Improved entertainment quotient in sports broadcasting. Assess AI maturity.

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Partnerships that Enrich Solutions: a Spotlight Interview with Dell Enterprise Germany’s General Manager, Benjamin Krebs

Cloudera

During this Partner Perspective interview, Cloudera’s Alvin Heib seizes the opportunity to speak with Benjamin Krebs, General Manager of Technology Enterprise in Germany. The sector he manages, Technology Enterprise, generates approximately $1 billion a year. Benjamin describes his work as big business and as big fun.

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Sustainability in 2024: How businesses can transform for eco-conscious success

Capgemini

“Sustainability is a team sport, a comprehensive issue that requires thinking and input from myriad partner ecosystems and every facet of consulting,” Sossa says. “At How about technology? Which tech trends should people follow in 2024? Obviously, the big phrase at the end of 2023 was “generative AI.”

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Lessons learned turning machine learning models into real products and services

O'Reilly Media - Data

In other words, “The gap between ambition and execution is large at most companies,” as put by the authors of an MIT Sloan Management Review article. Data science bootcamps are great for learning how to build and optimize models, but they don’t teach engineers how to take them to the next step.