Analytics

 

Netflix Maps Connections Between What People Watch to Help Scope Out New Shows (CNBC)

Ted Sarandos said one of the ways the company was able to lure screenwriter Ryan Murphy is by showing him how the intelligent use of data helps movies be much more successful. Sara... More

Oracle to Launch Internet ‘Weather Map’ (WSJ)

Oracle plans to launch in June an “Internet Weather Map” aimed at helping businesses better anticipate latency issues and outages caused by storms, earthquakes, state interven... More

Analytics is Shaping the World of Sports (SAS Blog)

Basketball is far more complicated than the well-known story of Moneyball within baseball because of the open-ended interactions between the players on both teams. Historically, si... More

Hollywood’s Algorithms Will Determine Tomorrow’s Blockbusters (TNW)

There’s always been place for robots in Hollywood, but these days they’re employees as often as props. AI is becoming an increasingly important part of Tinsel Town’s behind-t... More

Can Data Analytics Elevate Soccer’s Profile in the U.S.? (Dataconomy)

In the world of IT, data’s role as MVP is rapidly becoming an industry standard. But when it comes to athletics, there’s still some room to grow — at least in the case of Ame... More

Cognizant Acquires Hedera Consulting, a Belgian Advisory and Analytics Company (SCN)

Cognizant has acquired privately-held Hedera Consulting, a company specializing in business advisory and data analytics services across a number of industry sectors. The purchase f... More

Teradata Accelerates its Customers’ Analytics in the Cloud (MESA)

Teradata announced today that it continues to accelerate the movement of significant customer analytic workloads to the cloud. Enterprise-class organizations such as Ticketmaster, ... More

Ad-ID, Dial Report Collaborate to Improve Radio Reporting, Campaign Analysis (MESA)

TagStation, the owner of Dial Report, today announced a new collaborative initiative with Ad-ID, the media industry’s standard for identifying advertising assets across all media... More

NAGRA, ETC Partner on Fandom Genomics for myCinema (MESA)

NAGRA and the Entertainment Technology Center, a think tank and research center within the USC School of Cinematic Arts, have partnered to map Fandom Genomics. This data science st... More

Cary, NC Taps SAS for Criminal Analytics (CivSource)

Police in the town of Cary, North Carolina are in the early stages of moving law enforcement to an analytics-based ecosystem. Cary PD recently tapped SAS to help it bring its data ... More

Ad Tech Streams Into Audio (AdAge)

The day after David Bowie died in January 2016, Pandora users generated 200,000 Bowie-themed stations. The solar eclipse last August drove a 3,000 percent leap in Spotify plays for... More

Cognizant Teams with 14 Insurers on Blockchain Data-Sharing Platform (Coin Desk)

Cognizant has teamed up with 14 Indian insurance firms on the development of a blockchain solution for cross-company data sharing. Cognizant said in a statement on Monday that the ... More

SAS Hails Excellence in Analytics Education (SCN)

A persistent talent gap creates big opportunities for people who can wield analytics to help organizations make better decisions. Innovative analytics users and students who are ru... More

Blockchain is the Great Equalizer for Predictive Analytics (Dataconomy)

Predictive analytics uses historic data and complex algorithms to make predictions of trends, actions and outcomes, and it remains largely the purview of highly trained data scient... More

A New Era of the Smart Enterprise (Think Blog)

There’s an increased demand on enterprise developers to build smarter apps that put critical information at the fingertips of employees. In order to deliver on this demand, devel... More

AWS, Periscope Data Collaborate to Streamline, Simplify Analytics Workflow (SCN)

Periscope Data today announced an expansion of its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help streamline the analytics workflows of data teams. Periscope Data will now be... More

How Mobile Phones Are Giving Hollywood a Better Understanding of Its Audiences (Variety)

For years, studios have operated with only a vague understanding of who’s buying tickets to their films even as their leadership has publicly claimed to have an indelible connect... More

SAS COO Reflects on Staying Power of Analytics (Forbes)

As data volumes grow for companies, the need for short response times and self-service access to big data and analytics has increased. To address this need, SAS built-in memory ana... More

PwC Testing a Blockchain Analytics Tool for Tracking the Global Footprint of ICO Tokens (SCMP)

PwC is testing a blockchain analytics tool to help trace digital tokens after their launch, helping companies to guard against the risk their tokens will be misused as a medium for... More

Spotify Launches Tool for Crowdsourcing Song, Album Data (Billboard)

Music streaming has a vexing data problem, but Spotify believes it has a way to help fill in some of those info gaps across its 30 million songs. On Monday, the company released a ... More

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