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Leaders of Analytics

2021-07-11 – 2024-10-02 Podcasts Visit website ↗

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Leaders of Analytics is a podcast about data-driven decision-making, modern business leadership and the use of data and artificial intelligence in business and society. Each episode investigates the strategies, tools, techniques and leadership required to succeed in a world increasingly driven by data and analytics. The show’s guests share their stories and experiences in a way that helps listeners understand the big concepts and small details that make all the difference in today’s world of business. 

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Analytics 55 AI/ML 33 Data Science 23 BI 6 DWH 4 Marketing 3 Python 3 NFT 2 DeFi 2 Data Quality 2 ETL/ELT 2 Qlik 1 GenAI 1 Data Management 1 SQL 1

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★ Jonas Christensen 60 Bill Inmon 2 John Thompson 2 Felipe Flores 2 Benn Stancil 1 Kate Strachnyi 1 Randy Bean 1 Tejas Manohar 1 Tim Freestone 1 Ari Kaplan 1 Ravit Jain 1 Akshay Swaminathan 1

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Why Sport is Leading the Analytics Revolution with Ari Kaplan

2022-08-02 Listen
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Ari Kaplan (Databricks) , Jonas Christensen
AI/ML Analytics Data Science

Professional sports have undergone a true data revolution over the last two decades. Today, all major sports teams, regardless of sports code, use analytics and data science to drive team performance, optimise game outcomes and scout young talent. Why has analytics become so popular in professional sports and how does it help drive a competitive edge? To answer these questions and many more relating to the sports analytics, I recently spoke to Ari Kaplan. Ari has spent more than three decades using analytics to measure and understand human ability, scout future superstars and win professional sports titles. He is known as “The Real Moneyball Guy” because of his work in baseball and his involvement in making the Hollywood classic Moneyball. Today, Ari is Global AI Evangelist at DataRobot. Listen to this episode of Leaders of Analytics to learn: How Ari became “the Real Moneyball Guy”The analytics the Chicago Cubs used to break a 108-year drought by winning the World Series in 2016The evolution of analytics and data science in sportsWhat the business world can learn from sports in terms of using analytics to gain a competitive edgeWhere sports analytics is going in the future, and much more.