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Sport analytics leverage AI and ML to improve the game

CIO Business Intelligence

In the years since author Michael Lewis popularized sabermetrics in his 2003 book, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game , sports analytics has evolved considerably beyond baseball. Risk Mitigation Modeling can then be used to analyze training data and determine a player’s ideal training volume while minimizing injury risk.

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5 rules that transform outsourcing outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

It is the product of nearly 20 years of research at the University of Tennessee, beginning with a deep-dive funded by the United States Air Force on outcome-based outsourcing in 2003. For example, a buying organization might want “outcomes,” but the contract spells out dozens or even hundreds of service level agreement metrics instead.

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Humans-in-the-loop forecasting: integrating data science and business planning

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Done right, strategic forecasts can provide insights to decision makers on trends, incorporate forward-looking knowledge of product plans and technology roadmaps when relevant, expose the risks and biases of relying on any one forecasting methodology, and invite input from stakeholders on the uncertainty ranges.