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Sport analytics leverage AI and ML to improve the game

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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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Veo raises $25M for AI-based cameras that record and analyze football and other team sports

TechCrunch

Sports have been among some of the most popular and lucrative media plays in the world, luring broadcasters, advertisers and consumers to fork out huge sums to secure the chance to watch (and sponsor) their favorite teams and athletes. Even with the slowdown in a lot of sporting activity this year due to COVID — in the U.K.

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How AI is helping the NFL improve player safety

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Like many other professional sports leagues, the NFL has been at the leading edge of data-driven transformation for years. Risk Mitigation Modeling can then be used to analyze training data and determine a player’s ideal training volume while minimizing injury risk. Souza says this is true of all businesses, not just sports.

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Connected strength-training startup Vitruvian eyes US with $15M raise

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There’s been some leveling off of late, of course. The company’s at-home strength-training system sports resistance-based weights up to ~440 pounds. Vitruvian touts “software-driven weight training,” which can dynamically adjust resistance to the user. The company also pushes back a bit on the gym question.

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Masters, an app for training with celeb athletes, closes a $2.7M seed funding round

TechCrunch

We are all familiar with the success of platforms like Peloton (IPO’d), but there are of course new upstarts such as FiiT (raised £9 million) or Fitplan (raised $9.9 Plus there is Moxie , where coaches create their own courses. Each course is presented in high-quality video. Masters (see what they did there?) Masters app.

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Enhancing customer care through deep machine learning at Travelers

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Managing all of its facets, of course, requires many different approaches and tools to achieve beneficial outcomes, and Mano Mannoochahr, the companyâ??s This is kind of a team sport for us, so itâ??s We have about 13,000 employees through this set of training and itâ??s But we have to bring in the right talent. But whatâ??s

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IT leaders get creative to fill data science gaps

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Companies are struggling to hire true data scientists — the ones trained and experienced enough to work on complex and difficult problems that might have never been solved before. This has left data scientists not only bored but also frustrated that they weren’t focusing on the core work they have been trained to do.

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