Back in 2018, the Mets analytics department was widely mocked for being one of the smallest in the league and Jeff Wilpon famously went on record to say that Sandy Alderson told him not to hire more full-time analysts (and also not to spend on top-tier players). Apparently Sandy took that statement personally because, the analytics department will grow to 18 (it was at 6 prior to the new regime taking over) people in 2021 according to Justin Toscano of the Bergen Record .
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Intermountain and its analytics subsidiary help manage value-based care | Healthcare IT News
In 2011, Intermountain Healthcare made a deliberate decision to move assertively toward value-based care. The Salt Lake City-based health system believed that in order to drive greater affordability and quality for the communities it served it would need to engage in steadily increasing numbers of value-based care contracts.
Since that 2011 decision was made, Intermountain has seen solid performance and big momentum in its value-based care arrangements.
Google Cloud hires SAP alum Kazmaier, unifies database, data analytics, Looker units | ZDNet
Here's a look at how the cloud leaders stack up, the hybrid market, and the SaaS players that run your company as well as their latest strategic moves.
Google Cloud named former SAP executive Gerrit Kazmaier general manager for Databases, Data Analytics and Looker in a move that consolidates data units.
Kazmaier, who starts on Monday, will report to Urs Hölzle, senior vice president of technical infrastructure and Google Fellow at Google. Andi Gutmans, vice president of engineering for databases at Google, Debanjan Saha, general manager of data analytics, and Ronaldo Ama, general manager of Looker, will all report to Kazmaier.
Effectv Appoints John Brauer to Oversee Insights and Analytics | Business |
Effectv, the advertising sales division of Comcast Cable, today announced the appointment of John Brauer to vice president, insights and analytics.
Brauer had been leading the company's research team on an interim basis since May 2020. In his newly promoted post, he will now officially be helming the newly formed Insights & Analytics department, which is responsible for spearheading data science, analytics, measurement, marketer insights, and advertising effectiveness research.
Not to change the topic exactly:
Cisco adds 'People Insights' analytics to Webex | Computerworld
Cisco is adding new analytics features to its Webex collaboration platform that highlight working patterns at the personal, team, and organizational level.
The analytics – under the company's People Insights brand – are designed to provide a variety of data from interactions within the Webex platform. It also uses information from the Cisco's Webex Graph to track the relationships between staff at organizations using the collaboration platform, which contains video, call and team messaging features.
Facebook Analytics is Shuttering on June 30
Facebook Analytics will stop being accessible after June 30, 2021, which gives marketers less than three months to export their data and find other solutions.
Considering how marketers rely on Facebook Analytics to measure conversion data, this announcement comes with decidedly short notice.
The announcement that Facebook Analytics is going away at the end of June was quietly published in the Facebook for Business help center. Navigating to analytics.facebook.com now redirects users to the announcement, which reads:
iSchool Launches Programs in Data Analytics and Technology in Society | Syracuse University News
In a rapidly changing digital landscape, the School of Information Studies is challenged to ensure that its students and faculty are studying at the leading edge of their field. From human-centered design to cloud computing, machine learning to artificial intelligence and beyond, students and faculty are asking the questions that drive the future of business, technology and society.
It's with this spirit of innovation that the iSchool announces the launch of two new undergraduate programs: innovation, society and technology and applied data analytics . These two new majors will complement the current information management and technology program and will provide further opportunity for inquiry and exploration.
Tennis great Venus Williams a devotee of analytics
As the use of analytics becomes more widespread throughout all sports, one of the devotees of data is tennis great Venus Williams.
Just as some enterprises rely more heavily on analytics to drive their decision-making process more than others, some franchises in team sports and players in individual sports are more dedicated to data than others.
Williams, who has won the Wimbledon singles championship five times and seven individual Grand Slam titles overall to go with 14 doubles Grand Slams, is one of those athletes who believes in the power of data and employs analytics to help her on the court.
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