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Oliver Dykstra

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Oliver Dykstra

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Data Engineer Texas Rangers

Oliver Dykstra is a World Champion(2023) data engineer with the Texas Rangers. He builds scalable, future-proof data pipelines to support big data baseball analytics and machine learning.

Bio from: Databricks DATA + AI Summit 2023

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How the Texas Rangers Use a Unified Data Platform to Drive World Class Baseball Analytics

Don't miss this session where we demonstrate how the Texas Rangers baseball team is staying one step ahead of the competition by going back to the basics. After implementing a modern data strategy with Databricks and winnng the 2023 World Series the rest of the league quickly followed suit. Now more than ever, data and AI are a central pillar of every baseball team's strategy driving profound insights into player performance and game dynamics. With a 'fundamentals win games' back to the basics focus, join us as we explain our commmitment to world-class data quality, engineering, and MLOPS by taking full advantage of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. From system tables to federated querying, find out how the Rangers use every tool at their disposal to stay one step ahead in the hyper competitive world of baseball.