C eltics director of basketball analytics David Sparks was scrolling through his timeline last summer when he caught a tweet from Seth Partnow, a peer in the field of sports data who was the Milwaukee Bucks director of basketball research before becoming a writer at The Athletic.
Partnow compiled rosters, not of players or free agents, but of analytics staffers for every team in the NBA.
The list put in one place many of the names at the center of the unceasing race for information that has dramatically shifted the way games are played, coached, and viewed.
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British MSP Calligo Buys Decisive Data To Build Data Analytics Muscle
U.K.-based Calligo this month said it acquired Decisive Data, a U.S.-based provider of services around data analytics and data science, in a move to expand both its data visualization skills and its North American market.
The acquisition is the first in the U.S. for Calligo, although the company has acquired three Canadian MSPs in the last few years, said Calligo founder and CEO Julian Box.
Calligo, which made the Elite 150 of the CRN 2021 Managed Service Provider 500, was founded about 10 years ago with a focus on helping clients control who had access to data and where that data was located, and eventually moved on to transform into a cloud solution provider and then a managed services provider as concerns about data privacy grew with the passage of Europe’s GDPR regulations, Box told CRN.
Collaboration Analytics Is Crucial to the Employee Experience
Microsoft recently introduced its new employee experience platform Viva , riding on the back of COVID-19 induced changes to the workplace and ensuring the employee experience products and services market will be hot for the foreseeable future.
For a long time, Microsoft has dominated the "office" technology market. As the office transforms to a new hybrid workplace, Microsoft is looking to remain one step ahead.
The employee experience market has of course been around for quite a while, but until now was essentially locked up with the HR function. The Employee Experience Framework from Deloitte below is illustrative of many that have been developed by the HR community over the years.
Taking on the Major Players, Plausible Analytics Offers an Alternative, Privacy-Conscious Stats
Plausible Analytics is not new on the scene. The two-person, EU-based team behind the company has been trying to carve its slice of the analytics pie against players like Google Analytics and WordPress.com Stats for nearly two years.
The self-funded and bootstrapped company is starting to gain a small foothold. It has been an uphill climb to get to usage on over 10,000 websites. Now, it is reaching out directly to the WordPress community with its Plausible Analytics plugin .
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Jaguars hire Karim Kassam to oversee analytics, football technology - ProFootballTalk
The Jaguars announced Friday they have hired Karim Kassam as senior vice president of football operations strategy.
Kassam will oversee the team's football technology and analytics departments in addition to salary cap administration in consultation with coach Urban Meyer and General Manager Trent Baalke.
Kassam will report to Tony Khan, who the team announced is now chief football strategy officer. Tony Khan will report to owner Shad Khan, who presented his plan to implement a new football staffing structure to all head coach and General Manager candidates interviewed in January.
Verisk Analytics Inc. stock falls Friday, underperforms market - MarketWatch
Shares of Verisk Analytics Inc. VRSK, -0.80% slipped 0.80% to $190.49 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.00% rising 0.00% to 31,494.32 and the S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.19% falling 0.19% to 3,906.71. The stock's fall snapped a two-day winning streak. Verisk Analytics Inc. closed $20.17 below its 52-week high ($210.66), which the company achieved on December 29th.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Friday, as Fair Isaac Corp. FICO, +0.15% rose 0.15% to $473.82, CoreLogic Inc. CLGX, -0.78% fell 0.78% to $89.22, and Crawford & Co. Cl B CRD.B, +1.50% rose 1.50% to $8.78. Trading volume (960,337) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 653,005.
IPO & Harrity Analytics Release List of Top 300 Patent Holders for 2020 | McDonnell Boehnen
Last month, the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and Harrity Analytics announced the release of the 38th annual list of the top 300 organizations receiving U.S. utility patents ( see " IPO & Harrity Analytics Release List of Top 300 Patent Holders for 2019 "). Patent Docs readers may recall that the U.S.
As with the 2019 report, the 2020 report was compiled in collaboration with Harrity Analytics, based on data obtained from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The IPO and Harrity Analytics noted that patents reported on the 2020 list are utility patents granted during the 2020 calendar year that listed the organization or a subsidiary as the owner on the printed patent document.
What's Changed: 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms
The editors at Solutions Review highlight what’s changed since the last iteration of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms and provide an analysis of the new report.
Analyst house Gartner, Inc. has released its 2021 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms . Gartner defines the marketplace as being “characterized by easy-to-use functionality that supports a full analytic workflow — from data preparation to visual exploration and insight generation — with an emphasis on self-service usage and augmented user assistance.
Happening on Twitter
CBS Sports Network will televise a special analytics-driven presentation of BYU-Loyola Marymount at 3:00pm ET on Sa… https://t.co/EzcpgoPaVF sbjsbd (from Charlotte, NC) Fri Feb 19 20:28:27 +0000 2021
Important story by Globe teammate @julianbenbow on the lack of diversity on analytics staffs across pro sports: https://t.co/ZQ7ihyrRMQ PeteAbe (from Boston, planes and hotels.) Fri Feb 19 19:18:16 +0000 2021
The sports analytics community is overwhelmingly white and male. What is being done to make it more diverse?… https://t.co/gaeIvn1XOC nabjprez2011 (from Boston) Fri Feb 19 19:57:33 +0000 2021
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