Source: AP Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died Thursday. He was 82. The standard-bearer of “the beautiful game” had undergone treatment for colon cancer...
I recently had an opportunity to interview Pete Lorenzen, IBM General Manager, Core Business Optimization, in connection with their partnership with Brazil's largest soccer club Corinthians to help them personalize fan experience journey with Artificial Intelligence....
Big data is a strong currency in today’s climate in Canada, with companies and brands desperate to utilize it to streamline their own operations and save on costs, while delivering the optimum service. So it's an important aspect of nearly every single sector –...
The AI technology has been picking up steam in the past couple of years. It’s no longer a gimmick or a faraway fiction. Scientists from all around the world are slowly but surely cracking this riddle. Sure, they are still a long journey away from creating a true...
The sports betting industry is certainly one that never stands still. With the advances made on the technology front and the growing popularity of online betting, it’s important that operators continue to find ways to keep up with the latest trends. Customers are...
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The AI technology has been picking up steam in the past couple of years. It’s no longer a gimmick or a faraway fiction. Scientists from all around the world are slowly but surely cracking this riddle. Sure, they are still a long journey away from creating a true...
Watching professional sports is a classic pastime—most of us love to gather together and enjoy ourselves while united behind our favorite teams. Unfortunately, there is a major problem with the current state of sports worldwide: player injuries. Obviously, this is an...
Big data has taken the tech world by storm in the last years, as new applications are developed every day, ranging from retail and advertising to healthcare and politics. The impact of big data analytics is now spilling over novel fields, such as sports and online...
When we think about analytical data, we imagine information collated and used in advanced niches such as the medical and computer industries. But there’s one other industry that uses analytical data on a major scale and has done so since the dawn of time. We are of...
While gaming might have once traditionally been viewed as a pastime for introverted teenagers who enjoy nothing more than sitting in their bedrooms with the curtains closed, it is fair to say that current trends blow that idea completely out of the water. The term...
Analytics and Big Data have disrupted many industries, and now they are on the edge of scoring major points in sports. Over the past few years, the world of sports has experienced an explosion in the use of analytics Till a few years back experience, gut feelings, and...
American sports fans, in particular, love big data, and analyzing every quantifiable aspect of a team’s performance is as much a part of the game as turning up to the field on game night. Taking Sunday’s NBA game between the Golden State Warriors and the Minnesota...
Forgive me for using this headline to attract more readers during the summer holidays. Certainly, I will include a comment in my famous post The abuse of shocking headlines in IoT or how many stupid things will be connected ?. I encourage you to continue reading. The...
It’s no secret that analytics are everywhere. We can now measure everything, from exabytes of organizational “big data” to smaller, personal information like your heart rate during a run. And when this data is collected, deciphered, and used to create actionable...
My father played professional baseball for the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians in the 1920’s and 1930’s. This was in the days of Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, and long before anyone ever heard of computers or even the word, data. However, that did not mean the...
Gone are the days when the coaches used to sit and collect information during a live match and later looked for patterns and insights in the data that might help them make better decisions for future matches. Today, coaches have the two basic ingredients for sports...
The back room in the Infiniti Red Bull Racing garage at the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix looks more like a NASA mission control room than it does a garage. There are more computer monitors than there are eyeballs in the room, where three days before the race, several...
Sports has always been associated with tons of statistics about players, teams, and performances, and this information has been used to a limited extent in the past to improve games. Today, the picture is completely different thanks to big data, the technology that...
If there is one area in which big data is literally guaranteed to be a game-changer, it’s sports. Sports have for a long time been accompanied by a wealth of statistics – what’s different today is the amount of data and the multitude of ways that we have to analyze...
In Clare Balding’s autobiography My Animals and Other Family she relates the story of her father, a renowned horse trainer, telling an owner after Mrs Thatcher’s 1979 election victory that “it’s going to take a while to get used to a woman running the country”. The...
Not long ago, if the Los Angeles Clippers had wanted to figure out how to best defend Warriors star guard Steph Curry, they might have sent a scout to a game or watched video clips. For their recent first-round playoff matchup, they had another way. As of this year,...
On Saturday, May 3, the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby took place. Twenty 3-year-old Thoroughbreds took a 1.25-mile sprint in what is commonly referred to as “The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports.” For casual horse-racing fans, the Derby is likely one of only a...
Holliday’s body language speaks clearly, and his reaction is understandable. The pitch was wide, even wider than the first two pitches, both of which the umpire miscalled as strikes. Here’s the data: The PITCHf/x technology that makes this graphic possible, whatever...
Big data has seeped into all aspects of life and the sporting world is no exception. Data analytics has been applied to sport as varied as cricket, football, American football, basketball, rugby, Gaelic games, motor racing, tennis and sailing. Analytics isn’t solely...
Analytics and big data have potential in many industries, but they are on the cusp of scoring major points in sports. From coaches and players to front offices and businesses, analytics can make a difference in scoring touchdowns, signing contracts or preventing an...
While there’s no real gauge for how strong an idea can be, a decision by Booz Allen Hamilton to build a practice around that idea might be a good indicator of longevity. That is good news for the sports world, or at least the companies that want to cash in on it by...
Cricket is an art, not a science. It's a fact that needs restating after the disintegration of Andy Flower's reign as England coach. Slavery to data had gone too far. The triumphs of the more jocund Darren Lehmann, Flower's coaching antithesis, are a salutary reminder...
The 2013 Oakland A’s, says Allen Barra in the Atlantic, not the 2002 team depicted in the film, are the real Moneyball team. Given that football is more popular than baseball, is there a football Moneyball equivalent to the data-driven strategy exemplified in the film...
Sport at the elite level has always adopted new technologies to capture data from players during play to better understand their performance and their team’s result. Closely aligned with this is the practice of data analytics, and developments here tend to fall into...
What do basketball, football and hockey have in common? On the surface, not very much. After all, one sport is played on ice and the other two are played on either a grassy field or a wooden court. But according to University of Colorado computer science professor...
Data have long fueled the relationship between sports and their fans. Now, with Big Data tools enabling the collection and analysis of seemingly limitless types of sports-related information, the flow of sports data is poised to accelerate. "If there's data out there,...
What draws people to engineering and technology is generally the effort to create the best possible product within a series of technical or physical constraints. That same effort to solve a problem underlies the technology behind a Formula 1 race team, although like a...
Formula 1 fans were treated to a very entertaining race in Korea on Sunday. Did you catch the race? There was plenty of incident,. but once again Sebastian Vettel lined up in pole position and was in front from start to finish. It was another masterful drive from the...