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Will Gen AI Help the Texas Rangers Win the World Series in ’23?
The Texas Rangers are one of six MLB teams that hasn’t won a World Series. If they win it all this year--and they are currently leading a surprisingly competitive AL West at the season’s midway point with one of the Read more…
Inside the Modern Data Stack
If you’ve heard about something called “the modern data stack,” then you’re not alone. Google returns 489 million results for that search, if that’s a measure of anything anymore. While the modern data stack do Read more…
March Madness Brings Out the Analytics
The luck of the Irish is projected to be strong today, which is St. Patrick’s Day. But luck can only carry you so far in the NCAA Tournament, the first round of which also begins today. To float among the basketball go Read more…
College Teams Closely Watching How Pro Teams Adopt Analytics
Professional sports teams have been taking advantage of an array of analytics and AI techniques for some time. Now that the technology and applications are becoming more well understood, college athletics are starting to Read more…
We’re In the Moneyball 3.0 Era. Here’s What It Means for Live Sports
When Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane adopted Sabermetrics with his 2002 and 2003 teams, he popularized what became known as the Moneyball 1.0 era. Eighteen years later, we’re firmly on the cusp of Moneyball 3 Read more…
News In Brief
NFL, AWS Launch New Competition to Track Helmet Impacts in Football
In 2017, researchers from Boston University studied the donated brains of 111 National Football League (NFL) players. All but one showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease assoc Read more…
Scale AI Gets A $325M Series E Funding Infusion to Grow Its Data Annotation Mission
Data annotation and labeling startup Scale AI is taking in another $325 million in new investment, this time through a Series E round. The San Francisco-based company, which was founded in 2016, works to help enterpri Read more…
ML Scaling Requires Upgraded Data Management Plan
Successful data strategies are built on a foundation of meticulous data management, creating enterprise architectures that “democratize” data access and usage, yielding measurable results from machine learning platfo Read more…
Developers Display Grace Under Pressure During Pandemic
Digital architects are mostly holding their own under pandemic-induced pressure to get projects out the door faster despite persistent data infrastructure gaps, according to a vendor survey that also concludes COVID-19 d Read more…
This Just In
NEWARK, N.J., Jan. 9, 2025 — New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), an NJIT corporation, announced the launch of its fifth Division, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, featuring New Jersey’s first and only AI Job Shop. Read more…
REDLANDS, Calif., Dec. 19, 2024 — The United States Census Bureau has just released the latest annual update to its American Community Survey (ACS) data, the premier government source for detailed national population information. Read more…
NASHUA, N.H., Dec. 18, 2024 — Dresner Advisory Services published the 2024 Embedded Business Intelligence Market Study, part of its Wisdom of Crowds series of research. Read more…
MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 18, 2024 — Menlo Ventures, a leading venture capital firm investing at the forefront of AI, announced its first cohort of 18 companies backed by the $100 million Anthology Fund today. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18, 2024 — Jasper has announced a major expansion of its product suite with the launch of Jasper Studio, giving marketers the autonomy to design and deploy AI apps and workflows as well as a native Slack integration to extend the power of Jasper into the places where marketers work. Read more…