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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. Computer vision, AI, and machine learning (ML) all now play a role. Souza’s advice: Cultivate curiosity.

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Enhancing customer care through deep machine learning at Travelers

CIO

And we recognized as a company that we needed to start thinking about how we leverage advancements in technology and tremendous amounts of data across our ecosystem, and tie it with machine learning technology and other things advancing the field of analytics. This is kind of a team sport for us, so itâ??s

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Hiro Capital puts $2.3M into team sports tracking platform PlayerData — as does Sir Terry Leahy

TechCrunch

Hiro Capital has gradually been making a name for itself as an investor in the area know as “Digital Sports” or DSports for short. based PlayerData uses wearable technology and software tracking to give grass-roots and professional sports teams feedback on their training. It’s now led a $2.3 Edinburgh, U.K.-based

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The Newest FIFA World Cup Referee: Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning

Cloudera

The data innovation that I was most excited to learn about though is the implementation of a human-in-the-loop (HITL) machine learning (ML) solution to assist referees in more accurately calling offsides. What is human-in-the-loop machine learning? A world-class machine learning solution.

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Will AI Replace the Front Office in Pro Sports?

Harvard Business Review

With accurate player-availability predictions for all active players, AI-powered decision-making is dramatically improved around three dimensions: 1) Risk management: If a productive wide-receiver is likely to get hurt, for example, a team might invest more in talented backups, to minimize drop-off in team performance during injury.

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Computer vision transforms tennis coaching at Billie Jean King Cup

CIO

With centuries of tradition behind it, tennis as a sport has been highly resistant to change. It’s fair to say that tennis has lived up to its roots as a traditional sport,” says Mat Pemble, executive director of IT for the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the sport’s governing body.

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IT leaders get creative to fill data science gaps

CIO

Synchrony isn’t the only company dealing with a dearth of data scientists to perform increasingly critical work in the enterprise. 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.

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