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The Big Ideas From This Year’s Sloan Conference

The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference stages a research paper competition each year, and those papers usually contain results and ideas that are far more interesting than anything uttered on stage during the conference’s panels. Here are five trends that emerged in this year’s eight finalists: It’s all about big data sets: Camera-tracked data isn’t […]

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The Big Ideas From This Year’s Sloan Conference

The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference stages a research paper competition each year, and those papers usually contain results and ideas that are far more interesting than anything uttered on stage during the conference’s panels. Here are five trends that emerged in this year’s eight finalists: It’s all about big data sets: Camera-tracked data isn’t […]

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