Smart Data Collective

JUNE 8, 2023

We have talked extensively about the many industries that have been impacted by big data. many of our articles have centered around the role that data analytics and artificial intelligence has played in the financial sector. However, many other industries have also been affected by advances in big data technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 3, 2023

Digital solutions and data analytics are changing the world of sports entertainment at a rapid clip. From how players train, to how teams make strategic decisions during games, to how venues operate and fans engage, sports organizations are turning to software engineers and data scientists to help transform the sport experience.

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 6, 2021

If there’s one industry that had previously remained fairly untouched from the technological advancements, it is the sports domain. We have recently seen a number of technological developments that have impacted sports. Let us deep dive into the two technologies and their individual impact on the sports industry.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As a result, knowledge workers can create content, low- and no-code solutions are more accessible, and team members from every layer of the organization have broader options for getting work done. By educating users, companies can accelerate adoption, which increases the potential to unlock innovation across teams and business units.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 18, 2023

At this year’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention, the IBM sports and entertainment team accepted an Emmy® Award for its advancements in curating sports highlights through artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). It requires forethought, planning and collaboration.

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Cloudera

APRIL 27, 2022

This week I participated in an informative event that Cloudera hosted with TechCrunch: Data and the Culture Transformation. The conversations focused on how company data cultures are rapidly evolving and delivering new levels of value to businesses with the emergence of data ecosystems. One is the macro story, the big picture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

So students should learn about how to use the technology, and how to manage teams that use the tools — especially engineering teams. Building a team is becoming much more complicated because the inherent tendency among technical individuals to work alone is enhanced by AI,” says Lev Gonick, CIO of Arizona State University.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 24, 2023

IT is playing a key role in how the world’s most popular sport is played and experienced in Spain. The transformation, which started in partnership with Microsoft in 2016, is also enabling LaLiga to expand its business by offering technology platforms and services to the sports and entertainment industry at large.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2023

To reduce its carbon footprint and mitigate climate change, the National Hockey League (NHL) has turned to data and analytics to gauge the sustainability performance of the arenas where its teams play. The only way for you to speak in the language of business is to have the data that help you derive those insights.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. Spoiler alert: it failed.) Sun replaces Feiyu Xu as SAP’s global head of AI.

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DataRobot Blog

MARCH 25, 2022

Each team now has a budget cap, and significant rule changes have been introduced, altering strategies and adding excitement for the fans. In building this partnership, we want to highlight not only the superstars of McLaren Racing but also the superstars behind the scenes that work together to drive the team forward.

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DataRobot Blog

APRIL 7, 2022

For now, we’ll keep chipping away. The Data Race. Rule changes have upended data collection for F1 teams, leaving them all in the same spot with minimal historical data and many questions to be answered. With such a wealth of data collected, how do you find the signal in the noise?

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DataRobot Blog

MAY 3, 2022

But each race team’s ability to accurately anticipate the slightest change in track or air temperatures could mean the difference between finishing without points and popping the champagne on the victory platform. The key for Formula 1 teams is keeping their tyres in the right operating window to maximize performance. mile (5.41

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We took it seriously and said we need to have software, data, and AI capabilities,” says Nilles, who signed on to the CDIO role at the time. “We But to achieve Henkel’s digital vision, Nilles would need to attract data scientists, data engineers, and AI experts to an industry they might not otherwise have their eye on.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 3, 2023

If you play fantasy football, you are no stranger to data-driven decision-making. And this year, ESPN Fantasy Football is using AI models built with watsonx to provide 11 million fantasy managers with a data-rich, AI-infused experience that transcends traditional statistics. Serious business Fantasy sports are more than fun and games.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This year, the business challenge facing the GRAMMYs paralleled those of other iconic cultural sports and entertainment events: in today’s highly fragmented media landscape, creating cultural impact means driving captivating content across multiple digital channels. But until now, content production had been highly manual and laborious.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s a form of rightsizing, trying to balance around cost effectiveness, capability, regulation, and privacy,” says Musser, whose team found it more cost effective to run some workloads on a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster in the company’s data center than on the cloud.

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Paul Blogs on BI

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

I loved the game especially since my team, “The Runaway Brides”, soundly defeated the “Brutal Beauties” but it also reignited my love of the sport. Both teams had great skaters, but “The Runaway Brides” also had very skillful blockers that really made the difference. Plus, the combined data can now be exported to Excel and CSV.

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DataRobot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The baseball season is in full swing, overflowing with excitement for teams hoping to get onto the top of the leaderboard and play through the postseason. It’s been an honor to have worked with some epic teams in baseball (and some not-so-amazing teams) over the decades. Over two years ago, I joined another team— DataRobot.

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Cloudera

JUNE 8, 2022

In this #ClouderaLife Spotlight Hassan talks about three life themes that have kept him moving and motivated: learning from his father’s work ethic despite his family’s forcible displacement from their country of origin, his early experience with organized sports, and the value of mentorship. Sales is definitely a team sport,” he said. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2022

For the past few years, IT leaders at a US financial services company have been struggling to hire data scientists to harness the increasing flood of incoming data that, if used properly, could improve customer experience and drive new products. Finding and retaining IT workers , in general, has been difficult for a while now.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2023

Creating new revenue streams, identifying untapped audiences and better engaging fans onsite and all year-round are just some of the wins iconic Australian sporting events are chalking up thanks to human-centric digital innovation. Here, we explore two stellar examples in the Australian Grand Prix and Australian Open.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 9, 2024

Through a partnership spanning more than 25 years, IBM has helped the Augusta National Golf Club capture, analyze, distribute and use data to bring fans closer to the action, culminating in the AI-powered Masters digital experience and mobile app. At the Masters®, storied tradition meets state-of-the-art technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Speaking at the CIO UK 100 awards ceremony at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London, Drake explained what it meant to be ranked the top CIO in the UK , how her tennis background shaped her leadership, why automation is freeing up her IT team, and how THG is supporting engineers relocating from war-stricken Ukraine.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Right now, I’m in Queens, watching Novak Djokovic and Taylor Fritz battle it out in 90-degree heat for a spot in the US Open semifinals. For the US Open, that means enhancing one of the best digital experiences in sports, helping millions of tennis fans get up to speed on every match with AI-generated insights.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What’s the plan if customers are presented with false data, or if critical decisions are based on inaccurate AI responses? Bias can be inadvertently perpetuated when AI is trained on historical data, he notes. Stakeholders need to comprehend how AI makes decisions and handles data.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 27, 2023

A recent IBM study found that global executives cite inadequate data (41%) as the biggest obstacle to their ESG progress, followed by regulatory barriers (39%), inconsistent standards (37%) and inadequate skills (36%). ERP is the technology of record, touching virtually every organizational business process.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Many CIOs know that a high-performance team is usually greater than the sum of its parts, comprised of talent with highly complementary skills, a broader set of objectives than other teams, and fine-tuned approaches to collaboration and communication. That’s when a high-performance team takes shape.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Data-driven supply chains continues to be a hot topic, given what’s happened over the last couple of years with the pandemic, lockdowns, transportation woes, container ships held outside ports, war in Ukraine and other issues wreaking havoc. Data in general has been exploding for years in all facets and all verticals,” says Abel.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 12, 2022

If you play fantasy football, you are no stranger to the concept of data-driven decision making. To identify and distill the insights locked inside this sea of “unstructured” data, ESPN collaborated with IBM to teach Watson the language of football. Fantasy sports is more than fun and games. But numbers only tell half the story.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Our attendees reflected on the serious concerns raised about security since the earliest days of the cloud; concerns that were often dismissed as unfounded, and centred mainly around issues of data sovereignty. How you are ensuring your data and applications can be accessed securely no matter where users are located?

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DataRobot

MAY 11, 2021

At DataRobot, we believe in 10x-ing our efforts: returns for our customers, professional development of our team, and our platform. It 10x’s our world-class AI platform by dramatically increasing the flexibility of DataRobot for data scientists who love to code and share their expertise across teams of all skill levels.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A shift has occurred and IT is now viewed as an equal partner in driving business growth with CIOs recognized as the de facto leaders of innovation. At Colgate, this has led to empowering teams to experiment with a global hackathon called Tech Challenge. Now the capability is embedded in the product development process.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 12, 2021

You will be able to become a data scientist, data-driven marketing consultant, information systems experts using big data or a variety of other technology focused jobs. There is no secret that analytics and big data are becoming more important in video game development. In fact, playing video games has become a sport.

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datapine

JANUARY 6, 2022

1) What Is Data Interpretation? 2) How To Interpret Data? 3) Why Data Interpretation Is Important? 4) Data Analysis & Interpretation Problems. 5) Data Interpretation Techniques & Methods. 6) The Use of Dashboards For Data Interpretation. Business dashboards are the digital age tools for big data.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 2, 2023

This misconception surrounding observability arises from the belief that it caters exclusively to site reliabilit y engineers (SREs) and that they are the only role that can utilize the data gathered via observability solutions. In reality, observability goes far beyond any singular role or team within an organization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2022

You can’t always stop the poaching, but you can slow down the people on your team looking on their own to leave,” says Grayson Williams, vice president of enterprise applications at Red Hat, a provider of open-source software products. Employee retention definition. There is a talent shortage, which is expected to grow.

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