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Analytics

Blog | by Sarah Warsaw

Tracking tries and predicting winners

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is currently using the IBM TryTracker to analyze real-time data from England's four international games this month. How has team England been doing?
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Use Cases

Blog | by Graeme Noseworthy

Switching hats from media industry leader to media consumer

At IBM Insight, we have sessions specifically geared to the media and entertainment industry—your industry. But, we don't want you to just come and listen to us talk about audience analytics and demand forecasting. We want you to switch hats so we can listen to you.
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Governance

Blog | by Kaitlin Noe

What does the Gmail hack tell us about data security?

Hackers claimed to have released a list of five million Gmail usernames and passwords this past Thursday, resulting in coverage of yet another high profile data breach in the news. Who was responsible for the leak: Google or its users? What does this incident teach us about the public view on
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Use Cases

Blog | by Graeme Noseworthy

How leading media companies increase customer value

Throughout the year, I’ve been participating in a series of day-long “Art of the Possible” sessions with clients that run the gamut of media and entertainment. I’ve met with cable companies, broadcast TV providers, movie studios, sports networks and beyond. These sessions are intense, provocative
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NFL optimizes schedules with IBM's analytics systems

Michael North, senior director of broadcast planning and scheduling for the National Football League (NFL), has a tough job: assembling the best, most exciting schedule for the complete NFL season that satisfies the requirements of the teams, the broadcasters and fans. It's truly a big data
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Use Cases

Blog | by Jacqueline Woods

How next-generation infrastructure informs better, faster decision-making

Data is emerging as the world’s newest natural resource and the basis for a new kind of competitive advantage. Yet, for many organizations, the increasing volume, variety and influx of data is straining their IT infrastructures—traditional infrastructure was never designed to handle the magnitude
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Big Data

Blog | by Kaitlin Noe

Make sure your big data isn’t bad data

When data floods companies in such volume as recent years have seen, it can be difficult to know if big data is reliable data. This “data uncertainty” poses a problem for any company hoping to take advantage of their information’s potential. How can companies ensure that their data meets the
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Big Data

Blog | by Courtney Pallotta

Build the next great app in the cloud

Think it, try it and build it with IBM Bluemix, a cloud-based developer sandbox for big data and data management services. Bluemix makes agile mobile and web app development with best of breed capabilities a reality.
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Use Cases

Blog | by James Kobielus

Using real-time analytics to identify who's scooping whom in online journalism

Working journalists are locked into a never-ending race against time. Not only are reporters always up against deadlines, but they are constantly scrambling to make sure they break the news before the competition. As more people turn to online news sources (including, but not limited to traditional
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Big Data

Blog | by Harriet Fryman

Seize your big data moment and benefit from Insight 2014

Insight 2014, formerly Information On Demand, will bring more than 13,000 business and IT professionals together to exchange ideas and share experiences around harnessing the data coming from all directions in real time. Industry pundits, peers and thought leaders will connect the dots between big
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Data Science

Blog | by James Kobielus

Empowering athletes with real-time, data-driven decision support

There are complex challenges that a data scientist might face in statistically modeling real-time decision-support scenarios in fast-moving athletic competitions. Each sport needs to be modeled on its own terms. A within-game decision-support predictive model for one sport cannot be applied
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Data Science

Blog | by James Kobielus

Real-world experiments and the Facebook controversy over mood manipulation

The recent controversy over the ethics of Facebook's attempts to influence moods through tweaks to its newsfeed algorithms is overblown. Essentially, Facebook data scientists conducted one of many real-world experiments that are standard operating procedure with them and with most online businesses
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Big Data

Blog | by James Kobielus

Streaming media and narrative power of video content analytics

Video content analytics tools are humanity's unblinking eyes, capable of continuously filtering the world's media streams at scale. Video content analytics algorithms can parse the fine details within and between successive frames of specific streams, supporting pattern recognition, gesture
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Analytics

Blog | by Lauren Walker

The new wave of change: Big data and analytics in the UK marketplace

Big data and analytics is sweeping the UK market and promises to bring exciting solutions that are enabling organizations to stay ahead while customers and citizens continue to evolve in the new data-driven environment.
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Analytics

Blog | by Kimberly Madia

GOAL! Team IBM scores with sports and social media

IBM Brazil is running one of the largest sentiment analysis applications in the history of the country during the most important sporting event on the planet. Powered by solutions such as IBM InfoSphere Streams, it runs on two independent cloud systems provided by IBM SoftLayer. During the games,

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