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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…
The Flow of Data: What Internal Workflows Look Like for the Media and Entertainment Industries
To say that creative organisations will revert back to operating in the exact same ways they once did prior to the Covid-19 pandemic is a very unlikely statement. In the past year, fully cloud-based operations and hybrid 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
PARIS, March 30, 2023 — Following calls by over 1000 tech workers this week for a pause in the training of the most powerful AI systems, including Chat GPT, UNESCO calls on countries to fully implement its Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence immediately. Read more…
SYDNEY and SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 28, 2023 — Hitachi Vantara, a modern infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., and Golden Grove Nursery, the dominant supplier of citrus nursery trees to the Queensland citrus industry (Australia), have applied artificial intelligence (AI), advanced analytics and sensor technology to inform data-driven irrigation water management practices for sustainable, environmentally friendly food production. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20, 2022 — The Linux Foundation, a global nonprofit organization enabling innovation through open source, today announced that its AgStack project will host a new open source code base, alongside a fully automated, continuous computation engine, to create, maintain and host a global dataset of boundaries’ Read more…
LEWES, Del., Oct. 3, 2022 — John Snow Labs, the healthcare AI and NLP company and developer of the Spark NLP library, today announced the launch of two new products: Read more…
BANGALORE, India, May 10, 2022 — Cropin, an agritech pioneer, building the first global Intelligent Agriculture Cloud, announced that it has set up a new AI Labs. Read more…