If you really like sports and you’re really skilled at data analysis or machine learning, you might want to make that your profession. On Thursday, private equity firm Vista announced it… Read more »
Google announced on Tuesday that it is funding a project, called Automatic Statistician, that bills itself as “an artificial intelligence for data science.” Read more »
Analytics startup BeyondCore has raised $9 million for its technology that can analyze complex data sets and automatically highlight the strongest correlations. It’s a promising capability assuming companies are willing to… Read more »
Brian Burke followed up a career in the Navy by starting Advanced NFL Stats, and now his predictive models are powering the New York Times’ 4th Down Bot. Fans already love… Read more »
Prize money aside, Statwing’s new contest to find the best insights from a 400-plus-variable, 40,000-row social science dataset should at least be fun — there are a lot of interesting angles… Read more »
The New York Times has a new online tool and Twitter feed that analyzes every fourth down in every game and gives its analysis in real time. Fans, commentators and even… Read more »
Fantasy football is a big business that thrives on data, making it a great way to prove out a new technology and possibly earn a few bucks. A startup called SkyPhrase,… Read more »
Based on the data scientists I’ve met and the “how to become a data scientist” talks I’ve seen, it’s hard to disagree. But SQL and coding skills can be really helpful… Read more »
Airbnb recently analyzed its reviews to to find out what cities are the most hospitable and what guest-and-host characteristics tend to influence positive reviews. Should Airbnb users care? Read more »
Researchers have determined the most-controversial Wikipedia articles and topics across 10 different languages, and the results might surprise you. Religion, politics and war? Of course. But professional wrestling? Read more »