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Will Gen AI Help the Texas Rangers Win the World Series in ’23?
The Texas Rangers are one of six MLB teams that hasn’t won a World Series. If they win it all this year--and they are currently leading a surprisingly competitive AL West at the season’s midway point with one of the Read more…
Inside the Modern Data Stack
If you’ve heard about something called “the modern data stack,” then you’re not alone. Google returns 489 million results for that search, if that’s a measure of anything anymore. While the modern data stack do Read more…
March Madness Brings Out the Analytics
The luck of the Irish is projected to be strong today, which is St. Patrick’s Day. But luck can only carry you so far in the NCAA Tournament, the first round of which also begins today. To float among the basketball go Read more…
College Teams Closely Watching How Pro Teams Adopt Analytics
Professional sports teams have been taking advantage of an array of analytics and AI techniques for some time. Now that the technology and applications are becoming more well understood, college athletics are starting to Read more…
We’re In the Moneyball 3.0 Era. Here’s What It Means for Live Sports
When Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane adopted Sabermetrics with his 2002 and 2003 teams, he popularized what became known as the Moneyball 1.0 era. Eighteen years later, we’re firmly on the cusp of Moneyball 3 Read more…
News In Brief
Airbus is Teaching Planes to Land Themselves
Most people are familiar with autopilot, the system that controls an airplane’s speed, altitude, and heading under the watch of trained pilots. For the most part, pilots are still in charge of takeoffs and landings, bu Read more…
Big Data Career Notes: July 2022 Edition
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details Read more…
NFL, AWS Launch New Competition to Track Helmet Impacts in Football
In 2017, researchers from Boston University studied the donated brains of 111 National Football League (NFL) players. All but one showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease assoc Read more…
Scale AI Gets A $325M Series E Funding Infusion to Grow Its Data Annotation Mission
Data annotation and labeling startup Scale AI is taking in another $325 million in new investment, this time through a Series E round. The San Francisco-based company, which was founded in 2016, works to help enterpri Read more…
ML Scaling Requires Upgraded Data Management Plan
Successful data strategies are built on a foundation of meticulous data management, creating enterprise architectures that “democratize” data access and usage, yielding measurable results from machine learning platfo Read more…
This Just In
CARY, N.C., Nov. 30, 2023 — Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. And stories are rampant about its promise and its threat. Will AI’s potential be realized in the year ahead? Read more…
Nov. 29, 2023 — New research released today from Harnham, the global leaders in data recruitment, reveals that the proportion of female data professionals in entry-level roles has more than halved in the UK and the US, and declined in the EU data industry in 2023. Read more…
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 22, 2023 — C3 AI has announced the AWS Marketplace listing of its no-code, self-service generative AI application in AWS Marketplace — C3 Generative AI: Read more…
REDLANDS, Calif., Nov. 17, 2023 — In 2021, Esri, a global leader in location intelligence, released ArcGIS Platform, a geospatial platform as a service (PaaS) for developers to integrate location capabilities into their apps, business systems, and products. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9, 2023 — The Linux Foundation is excited to announce the launch of the DAOS Foundation, an initiative aimed at advancing the governance and development of the Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS) project. Read more…