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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. Sustainability is all about innovation and business optimization. SAP is the technical lead on NHL Venue Metrics.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

the weight given to Likes in our video recommendation algorithm) while $Y$ is a vector of outcome measures such as different metrics of user experience (e.g., Experiments, Parameters and Models At Youtube, the relationships between system parameters and metrics often seem simple — straight-line models sometimes fit our data well.

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AI is key player in Texas Rangers’ winning formula

CIO Business Intelligence

Not only do we have the traditional ball tracking metrics like velocity and spin rate, we’ve also got player positioning data,” Booth says. Streamlining teamwork As a result of the Statcast revolution, the Rangers’ analytics team started to transform, and Booth was the fifth person on it when he joined the Rangers in 2018.

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Meta-Learning For Better Machine Learning

Rocket-Powered Data Science

So, you start by assuming a value for k and making random assumptions about the cluster means, and then iterate until you find the optimal set of clusters, based upon some evaluation metric. There are several choices for such evaluation metrics: Dunn index, Davies-Bouldin index, C-index, and Silhouette analysis are just a few examples.

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Top BOB Blog Posts of 2018: Data Science, Machine Learning and the Net Promoter Score

Business Over Broadway

All of my top blog posts of 2018 (most reads) are all related to data science, with posts that address the practice of data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning tools and methods that are commonly used and even a post on the problems with the Net Promoter Score claims. First, the “research” behind the NPS claims is flawed.

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When models are everywhere

O'Reilly on Data

It predates recommendation engines, social media, engagement metrics, and the recent explosion of AI, but not by much. The Entertainment” is not the result of algorithms, business incentives and product managers optimizing for engagement metrics. YOUTUBE, CONSPIRACY, AND OPTIMIZATION.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Instead of continuing to deploy their attention optimization algorithms for their users’ and suppliers’ benefit, the tech giants began to use them to favor themselves. The most-clicked sponsored products were 17% more expensive and 33% lower ranked according to Amazon’s own quality, price, and popularity optimizing algorithms.