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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. With 112,000 reports in the system and 8 million bits of information, it’s a huge amount of information for 42 clubs.”

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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. One of those data sources is the Next Generation Stats System (NGS), which captures real-time location, speed, and acceleration data for every player. Souza says this is true of all businesses, not just sports.

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Design and implement a content governance system to increase ROI

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Content governance systems take the key elements of a style guide and content strategy and turn them into even more thorough, usable and holistic frameworks for your entire company. With a content governance system, you need to ensure you’re tracking the right kind of metrics for your website. This makes measuring ROI tricky.

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

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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 Trainer+, meanwhile, sits on the floor, with a pair of cables offering adaptable cable-based weight training.

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With generative AI, IT must deliver knowledge…not just technology

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The case for GenAI education as part of IT’s remit At first blush, training and educating users on how to use generative AI may seem outside the typical scope of IT, but GenAI is not a typical tech transformation. Bill Gates has even suggested it will have an equivalent impact as the birth of the modern operating system.

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What is your data strategy for an AI future?

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Sports Illustrated and its CEO found this out recently when it was revealed the magazine published articles written by fake authors with AI-generated images. Researchers have predicted that high-quality text data used for training LLM models will run out before 2026 if current trends continue.

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Computer vision transforms tennis coaching at Billie Jean King Cup

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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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