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Sport analytics leverage AI and ML to improve the game

CIO Business Intelligence

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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What is vegetation management? 

IBM Big Data Hub

The 2003 blackout mentioned earlier wasn’t an isolated case; in some regions, vegetation causes up to half of the power outages, and in the US, this figure reaches as high as 92% , as reported by the Federal Energy Commission. Weather data to predict growth patterns and model trees at risk of falling due to high winds or flooding.

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An Intelligent Future for Manufacturing

CIO Business Intelligence

For Huawei, digitally transforming manufacturing through advanced ICT including 5G technologies, cloud computing, big data and AI, is the key to reshaping industries for the future. Another leading manufacturer, BYD , first entered the automotive market in 2003.

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Marketing as a strategic business partner: mixing theory, research and #data

Jen Stirrup

I thought I’d share how we started to apply marketing theory, practice, and insights from data. Research evidence has shown that consumers interact with advertising in complex ways, especially since we have such short attention spans (Weilbacher, 2003). The secret is the data. Real never goes out of fashion.

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How Etihad taps data science to optimise airline operations

CIO Business Intelligence

Despite the worldwide chaos, UAE national airline Etihad has managed to generate productivity gains and cost savings from insights using data science. Etihad began its data science journey with the Cloudera Data Platform and moved its data to the cloud to set up a data lake. Solving data modelling problems.

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Per Scholas redefines IT hiring by diversifying the IT talent pipeline

CIO Business Intelligence

When CEO Plinio Ayala joined Per Scholas in 2003, he noticed there weren’t enough skilled technicians to fix the hardware the organization collected. Per Scholas leadership calls the approach “market-driven training,” because it is informed by the current hiring demands and needs of the technology industry.

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Diversity for Businesses: What happens if Diversity is at odds with the organization?

Jen Stirrup

I am mentoring and leading them, while delivering the project, setting a vision, generating and implementing data strategies, and slowly helping to mould the culture to be more data-driven as well as insight-driven. Equal Pay Portal ( 2017) United Kingdom data on the gender pay gap. . Franklin, J. Sosenko, F.,