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olympics 
DECEMBER 27, 2023
As skiers schussed and swerved in a snow park outside Beijing during the 2022 Winter Olympics, a few may have noticed a string of towers along the way. Countries often treat the Olympics like a security trade fair. Did they care that they were the involuntary subjects of an Internet of Things–based experiment in border surveillance ?
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Towards AI
JULY 20, 2023
Women Participation is on the Rise Photo by Ryunosuke Kikuno on Unsplash I always enjoyed watching the Olympic games, watching the best people at each sport compete with each other is inspiring to me and makes me wonder how my life would look like if I would pursue Volleyball (my current favorite sport) instead of Software Engineering.
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FlowingData
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
To decide who’s doing best at the Olympics you have to define what “best” means. Katz has been updating for each Olympics since PyeongChang 2018. Tags: Josh Katz , medal , Olympics , ranking , Upshot. Do you go by total medal count? Do you give more weight to gold medals over silver and bronze?
83 How to Optimize the Developer Experience for Monumental Impact
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production
Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them
Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know
Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products
FlowingData
JULY 27, 2021
Tags: medal , Olympics , tracker.
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FlowingData
AUGUST 12, 2021
Tags: Josh Katz , New York Times , Olympics.
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Hacker News
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
The Grand Paris Express is well underway, but will not open in time for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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Hacker News
AUGUST 29, 2023
I propose this game as a new Olympic sport. In this post I derive the physics of pumping a swing and the physics of jumping from a swing. Then, using both pieces I compute the optimal strategy of jumping from a swing to maximize the traveled distance.
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Dataconomy
DECEMBER 14, 2021
“The Olympics of Tech,” Web Summit, took place 1-4 November in Lisbon, Portugal. Despite Europe being in the middle of a pandemic, the world’s premier tech conference gathered 42,751 attendees. At a time of great uncertainty for many industries and, indeed, the world itself, “the grand conclave of the tech.
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Towards AI
JANUARY 28, 2024
Medal-worthy Olympic data visuals with modular promptingDall-E image: thick dripping oil painting of the (inaccurate) dashboard displayed on a computer screen With GPT-4, even a complete Streamlit beginner can use the Python StreamLit library to create a data visualization masterpiece. Using well-formulated modular prompts.
FlowingData
AUGUST 9, 2021
Bonnie Berkowitz and Artur Galocha go with the strip plot to show the distribution of age for different Olympic events. Tags: age , Olympics , Washington Post. If it’s longevity you’re looking for, go for the equestrian, sailing, shooting, and archery events. There’s still time.
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Hacker News
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
QWOP is a browser-based, 2-dimensional flash game in which the player controls an Olympic sprinter competing in a simulated 100-meter race. The goal of the game is to advance the runner to the end of the 100-meter race as quickly as possible using the Q, W, O, and P keys, which control the muscles in the sprinters legs.
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Hacker News
MARCH 24, 2023
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FlowingData
JULY 23, 2021
The 2020 Summer Olympics are here, so ’tis the season for experimental visual explainers. The Washington Post uses a combination of illustration, video, and augmented reality to show off three new Olympic sports : skateboarding , surfing , and sport climbing. Tags: Olympics , Washington Post.
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FlowingData
JULY 22, 2021
With the Olympics starting on Friday, The New York Times started their coverage of events and athletes to watch. Tags: New York Times , Olympics , Tokyo. Their visual explainers are always very good in that the topic is entertaining and the results feel like a creative break, which a lot of us could probably use right about now.
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FlowingData
AUGUST 9, 2021
With the 2020 Olympics wrapped up, The New York Times raced this year’s medal winners against previous medalists to provide context for the new records set in Tokyo. Tags: history , New York Times , Olympics. The simplified style of the animations gave me Sega Game Gear flashbacks.
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FlowingData
JULY 26, 2021
Tags: estimation , New York Times , Olympics , swimming.
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Tableau
MARCH 7, 2024
Women's Suffrage | #WomensHistoryMonth Kimly Scott Women in Parliament Irene Diomi Visible Women Judit Bekker Female Nobel Prize Laureates | Back 2 Viz Basics Shreya Arya Women in leadership Ellen Blackburn Women in Olympics Kelly Tan Women, business, and the law Yobanny Samano Women's March - There is Power in Numbers Chantilly Jaggernauth International (..)
Tableau
JULY 10, 2021
Over the next few weeks, 800-plus members of Team USA will converge in Tokyo to pursue their long-awaited Olympic and Paralympic dreams. Kristin Adderson. July 10, 2021 - 8:16pm. July 23, 2021. Meet Team USA.
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Tableau
AUGUST 17, 2021
After seeing her swimming heroes—including her present coach, Ian Crocker—in the ’08 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Lizzi dreamt of competing at a world-class level. . It's fascinating utilizing the viz to see data on the best of the best athletes across all the Olympic and Paralympic sports,” Lizzi remarks. That’s what it became.
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Tableau
AUGUST 17, 2021
After seeing her swimming heroes—including her present coach, Ian Crocker—in the ’08 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Lizzi dreamt of competing at a world-class level. . It's fascinating utilizing the viz to see data on the best of the best athletes across all the Olympic and Paralympic sports,” Lizzi remarks. That’s what it became.
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Hacker News
AUGUST 30, 2023
If piracy had its own Olympics, Russian competitors would be among the favorites to bring home the gold, or so the stereotype dictates. Yet for the last 18 months, multiple threats to legalize piracy of Western movies have not only faltered, but have thus far reached no obvious conclusion.
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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Satlas’ developers have already posted some sample applications — for example, showing how commercial logging has reduced tree cover on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, or how heavily Brazil has invested in solar farms over the past few years. At left: Sentinel-2 satellite image. At right: The AI-enhanced image from Satlas.
Smart Data Collective
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Basketball fans of a certain age will remember the 1992 US Olympic team that included wall-to-wall legends including Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird. Nicknamed the Dream Team, their opponents in the Olympics lost by an average of nearly 44 points per game. This model can also remain consistent as the project scales.
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FlowingData
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
If you watched the men’s halfpipe in the Olympics, you were probably impressed by Ayumu Hirano’s tricks. Tags: Ayumu Hirano , composite , New York Times , Olympics , snowboarding. But it can be hard to see what he actually does in real-time, other than flying high, spinning a lot, and landing cleanly.
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FEBRUARY 12, 2023
The Washington Post used AI technology to report on the Olympics and elections. Forbes has its own AI and machine learning tools built into its CMS platform called Bertie to help journalists optimize headlines, generate descriptions and recommend images for a story, for example.
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Tableau
JULY 10, 2021
Over the next few weeks, 800-plus members of Team USA will converge in Tokyo to pursue their long-awaited Olympic and Paralympic dreams. Kristin Adderson. July 10, 2021 - 8:16pm. July 23, 2021. Meet Team USA.
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Smart Data Collective
APRIL 23, 2022
Big data can help athletes track and improve their performance, especially for ultra-competitive sport at the Olympic level. With sport analytics and the analysis of audience engagement, organizers are able to make life game experience has more enjoyable while also maintaining and increasing the sponsorship and participation of fans.
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FlowingData
AUGUST 5, 2021
Tags: New York Times , Olympics , running.
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FlowingData
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Tags: Nathan Chen , New York Times , Olympics , sports.
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Tableau
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Olympic and Paralympic athletes, including U.S. Katherine Rowe Sports Marketing Manager, Salesforce and Tableau Tanna Solberg February 3, 2022 - 7:29pm September 10, 2023 Data continues to be critical to the success of athletes, teams, and leagues alike. As a proud partner of Team USA, Tableau from Salesforce is working with individual U.S.
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Mlearning.ai
MARCH 14, 2023
I want to ask a question “Where was the last Olympics held? For the the message, since its a question, the role is user and the content is the question., {"role": "user", "content": "Where was the last olympics held? The last Olympics were held in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. We pass the model ID (“gpt-3.5-turbo”)
Tableau
APRIL 21, 2021
The tool also aids with endangerment issues like poaching, illegal logging, and human-wildlife conflict in iconic landscapes—from the Serengeti and Maasai Mara National Reserve to Washington State's Olympic Peninsula.
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Tableau
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Executing an Olympic and Paralympic Games is a massive logistical challenge, and Tableau has helped streamline the information required to make it happen.” - Team USA. Olympic and Paralympic Foundation. during the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. . . Athlete logistics. Go big, or don’t go at all. “By
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Tableau
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Executing an Olympic and Paralympic Games is a massive logistical challenge, and Tableau has helped streamline the information required to make it happen.” - Team USA. Olympic and Paralympic Foundation. during the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. . . Athlete logistics. Go big, or don’t go at all. “By
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Tableau
APRIL 21, 2021
The tool also aids with endangerment issues like poaching, illegal logging, and human-wildlife conflict in iconic landscapes—from the Serengeti and Maasai Mara National Reserve to Washington State's Olympic Peninsula.
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Tableau
AUGUST 5, 2022
For example, analytics was front and center during the Winter Olympic Games. Explore whether a great start is necessary for a great finish in the luge using men’s and women’s singles luge time data from the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics for Team USA. Go TEAM DATA!
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Tableau
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
I had the opportunity to work with Tableau solution engineers to develop visualizations for eight different NGBs representing Team USA at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. Since 1920, USA Hockey has fielded a men’s team in the Olympic Winter Games. Laying the foundation. The majority were from Northern states.
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Tableau
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
I had the opportunity to work with Tableau solution engineers to develop visualizations for eight different NGBs representing Team USA at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. Since 1920, USA Hockey has fielded a men’s team in the Olympic Winter Games. Laying the foundation. The majority were from Northern states.
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Tableau
AUGUST 5, 2022
For example, analytics was front and center during the Winter Olympic Games. Explore whether a great start is necessary for a great finish in the luge using men’s and women’s singles luge time data from the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics for Team USA. Go TEAM DATA!
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Women in Big Data
JUNE 21, 2022
” I also have developed a keen interest in pole dancing, I read it might be classified as an Olympic sport soon, LOL. But it’s an interesting challenge seeing how far I can push my body to contour. WiBD: Any Quotes or inspirations that you live by?
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Smart Data Collective
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Joking aside, live TV sports viewers are in the billions, especially where some of the top events like; Football/Soccer, the Olympics, contact sports and basketball are concerned. These can be found with a simple online search that includes a search query like: “Where can I watch the Tokyo Olympics for free?”
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IBM Journey to AI blog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Its early success, coupled with IBM WebSphere in the 1990s, put it in the spotlight as the database system for several Olympic games, including 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, and the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. The impact of Db2 on IBM Db2 helped position IBM as an overall solution provider of hardware, software, and services.
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Smart Data Collective
SEPTEMBER 27, 2020
The digital Yuan is currently being tested in four different cities across China, with the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing set as the time for a real mass scale test of the new digital currency. However, this currency would never exist in the real world and no bank notes would ever be printed. European Union to Join the Bandwagon?
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