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Sport analytics leverage AI and ML to improve the game

CIO

Nearly 10 years ago, Bill James, a pioneer in sports analytics methodology, said if there’s one thing he wished more people understood about sabermetrics, pertaining to baseball, it’s that the data is not the point. The point is to use the data like a razor to cut through false convictions to find the truth.

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LaLiga transforms fan experience with AI

CIO

IT is playing a key role in how the world’s most popular sport is played and experienced in Spain. The country’s premier football division, LaLiga, is leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) to deliver new insights to players and coaches, and to transform how fans enjoy and understand the game.

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All the reasons why you should launch a credit or debit card

TechCrunch

And then there is the growth of branded credit and debit cards among brands and sports teams. The launch and success of businesses like Marqeta has made card issuance by API developer friendly, which lowered the barrier to entry significantly over the last half-decade. The reason why this is happening is because the ‘fintech 1.0

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Accessing Kafka’s Real-Time Analytics Is Easier Than Ever

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

The issue behind accessing real-time data is that most business intelligence, data science, and data management tools do not natively connect to Kafka. As Kafka adoption becomes more widespread, the massive advantage in the practical application of real-time analytics continues to grow increasingly evident.

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Are CEOs Really Necessary Anymore?

Strategy Driven

With increasingly vast bodies of knowledge about experiences, one can see how business Intelligence, with enough computing power, became Artificial Intelligence. And that’s why we’ve come so close to going from data that one human can process, to Big Data, which requires dozens of sensors to process. No driver necessary.

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Is the power of people skills enough to keep gen AI in check?

CIO

IT is not an individual sport,” says Laura Baldwin, president at O’Reilly Media. For business intelligence jobs, the main skill is SQL. And it plans to add more than 1,080 new soft skills-related offerings this year, including live training courses, video courses, and books. “IT

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Software Engineering Daily: Feature Flags with Edith Harbaugh

LaunchDarkly

JM: Software engineers can build their applications faster when they use higher-level APIs and infrastructure tools. Serverless functions let you quickly spin-up cost-efficient, short-lived infrastructure. Container platforms let you scale your long-lived infrastructure for low-cost. is a sports app. The apparel company?