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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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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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Design and implement a content governance system to increase ROI

TechCrunch

Choose metrics that matter. Your company is already likely using vanity metrics, like open rates, shares and time spent on a page, to measure how well your content seems to be performing. Vanity metrics don’t measure how engaged potential customers are; they simply gauge the relative popularity of your business.

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Smart dumbbells? Sure, why not?

TechCrunch

Kabata joins a growing number of startups bringing connected strength training into the home. Today Kabata is announcing a $2 million round, featuring a bunch of names from the sports and VC worlds. “Our All of the smarts contained therein start with the weight system. Image Credits: Kabata.

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LLMs come to workplace morale monitoring, as Loopin raises $1.9M for its platform

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These two highly trained, former special forces soldiers have now poured all their knowledge – as well as academic research papers and other data – into training data for their platform on how to build teams. The company says it already has 40 paying customers including Reed, Farfetch and JD Sports.

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SRE as a team sport

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Part of this type of engineering involves collecting metrics that can alert you to oncoming problems; another part is building up enough experience with SRE to see the problems in advance: "to skate where the puck is heading," as Beevers puts it. Continue reading SRE as a team sport. See our statement of editorial independence.

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Motosumo scores $6M to spin up a challenge to Peloton

TechCrunch

” Motosumo applies its mobile-based quantification tech — which measures cadence, speed, distance and calorie burn — in a cycling training app that also offers interactive 3D games, team challenges and international leaderboards to up the motivational energy.

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