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What’s Our Job When the Machines Do Testing? It’s a safe bet that testing jobs won't be taken over by machines anytime soon. However, those of us in the test industry would be wise to heed cross-industry applications of analytics and machine learning and begin staking out the proper role of the machine in our testing domain. What could AI mean for testing? |
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Lessons from the Lovable Losers on Optimizing Your Test Engine The Chicago Cubs’ championship win in 2016 signaled the end of the long-running debate on the use of analytics in Major League Baseball. Analytics had won. Meanwhile, the emergence of analytics in the business world has been just as swift. Is analytics the next generation of test automation? |
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Social, Mobile, Analytics, and the Cloud Together Are the Future of IT The next wave in IT seems to be SMAC technologies—or social, mobile, analytics, and the cloud. Individually, each of the pieces of the “SMAC stack” are not new to us. However, what is changing now is the use of these four elements together as an integrated ecosystem, rather than as separate silos. |
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Exercise Care in Using Big Data for Sports Coverage Big data is expected to revolutionize sports and strengthen its industry. However, there is also a dark side to big data, where businesses place too much faith on the analysis, and other challenges around its security, ownership, and curation. It's increasingly important to ensure the data quality. |
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High-Tech Sports Broadcasts Deliver a Whole New Ballgame High-tech cameras are improving how sports are watched and played. Whether it is tracking plays, recording with previously unheard-of precision and accuracy, or providing a whole new depth to game analytics, these cameras are changing the overall sporting experience—for athletes, coaches, and fans. |
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Thanks to Smarter Analytics, Big Data Will Be the Talk of 2015 Just because big data—which has become one of the most talked about buzzwords in the industry—hasn’t reached its full potential yet doesn’t mean it won’t. Better analytics and a greater understanding of the science behind big data will go far to make big data a much more prominent tool in 2015. |
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Microsoft's Cortana Assistant Using Bing to Predict the World Cup We might finally have a successor to Paul the octopus. Microsoft's Cortana, which acts as a strong competitor to Apple's Siri companion, has predicted the last four World Cup games successfully. Its complex system that takes into account a handful of key metrics has the US team losing to Belgium. |
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Will the Super Bowl Win Impact the Future of Predictive Analytics? The Seahawks' victory brings us to a new topic of consideration. Does their win mean anything to the world of predictive analytics, which has been up and coming in the past few years? Predictive analytics beat the experts in judging the outcome of the game. Here's a look at its other applications. |
