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NHL turns to venue metrics data to drive sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

In October, the league, with partner SAP, launched NHL Venue Metrics, a sustainability platform that teams and their venue partners can use for data collection, validation, and reporting and insights. Mitchell’s team also works closely with the IT group to ensure the platform and its data are secure.

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Methods of Study Design – Experiments

Data Science 101

Bias ( syatematic unfairness in data collection ) can be a potential problem in experiments and we need to take it into account while designing experiments. Let the number of literate people increased by 5000 in 2010-2020 whereas 3500 in 2000-2010. Randomization is a very effective way to solve the bias problem.

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How software can digitally transform child adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

Through the right intentions and business technology leadership, BEB has placed 3,133 orphans with families since it began in 2010. All data collected by the platform is hosted on the AWS cloud, but Schwartz says convincing end-user organizations to trust the cloud had its challenges.

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Third Annual Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study ®

Howard Dresner

Having started in earnest in 2010, this will be our third comprehensive study of the BI marketplace - and our most ambitious to date! We're in the process of developing and finalizing the survey instrument now and expect to start data collection within weeks. Check back here often for updates to schedule and our progress.

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Big Data Paves The Way For Fantastic New Social Listening Tools

Smart Data Collective

million in Series B in 2010, and was quickly acquired by Twitter for $40 million in 2011. For example, the company Tweetdeck was ahead of their game when they recognized the need for businesses to engage with their customers back in 2009. During this time, they raised $300,000 in seed funds, $3.5

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Euro Soccer Special: What Football Teaches Us About Analytics

Sisense

It’s no surprise that rivals followed suit and that by 2010 analytics were widely used by top teams in leading international leagues. Like every other business, football has experienced rapid technological advances that generate and capture data from training and match play. FIFA didn’t even start counting assists until 1994 !

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Communal Computing’s Many Problems

O'Reilly on Data

After the release of the iPad in 2010 Craig Hockenberry discussed the great value of communal computing but also the concerns : “When you pass it around, you’re giving everyone who touches it the opportunity to mess with your private life, whether intentionally or not. This expectation isn’t a new one either.

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