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12 of the best restaurants in Frankfurt
Famed for the Frankfurter sausages that bear its name, today visitors to the German city on the river Main are able to find restaurants, bars and cafes serving dishes from around the world, as well as local signatures such as Green Sauce (made from seven herbs) and Apfelwein (like a sharp, flat cider).
How to paint urban camouflage
You won't get lost with these easy-to-follow painting tips. Few paint schemes are as striking as urban camouflage, and painting this standout camo isn’t as hard as you might think. I sprayed the model with gray primer and painted the wheels green. I airbrushed SMS Aggressor White Grey (No. PL104) for the scheme’s white areas, leaving plenty of extra paint at the edges. After it had dried, I masked the white areas with Tamiya tape.
20 Different Ways to Talk About Football Using OptaAI: Turbocharge Your Fan Engagement
According to industry research published this year*, 84% of football fans believe that match data and statistics enrich their understanding of the game. * Source: LiveScore Evolution of Fan Report 2024 For approaching 30 years, Opta data has been at the forefront of empowering broadcasters, rights holders, publishers and brands to tell deeper, more engaging stories to create greater stickiness both in the leadup to matchday and when the on-field action unfolds.
How to Rob a Bank in GTA 5: A Step-by-Step Guide
Andy Cooper · Follow 8 min read · -- Get money on sudohackers.com. Need funds fast? SudoHackers.com delivers secure transactions tailored to your needs. Start your journey to financial independence with us today. Robbing a bank in GTA 5 is one of the most thrilling aspects of the game, combining strategy, action, and high-stakes excitement. Whether you’re playing through the story mode or GTA Online, completing a successful heist is both challenging and rewarding.
Protect Your Bank Account: Top Strategies for Secure Banking
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Cost of being a wedding guest
When you receive a wedding invite, your first reaction is hopefully delight, but you might also start to calculate the costs involved in attending. The average adult American attends two weddings per year—with some years much more -- and celebrating someone's big day often comes with big costs.
Football Analytics Course, Delivered With Birkbeck University, To Start Later This Month
This year we have once again partnered with Birkbeck, University of London, to deliver a nine-week football analytics module as part of the university’s Sport Management and Business of Football MSc. Delivered online, the football analytics module features weekly lectures delivered by experienced industry professionals, who each possess specialist areas of expertise and first-hand experience of implementing data and analytical processes within the professional football industry.
Every State's Secret Costco Product Obsession Revealed
In a world of declining product quality and inflation, few brands have stood the test of time and remained relevant, particularly since the beginning of the 21st century. But there's one major exception: a company that somehow seems to keep its prices and quality consistent (mostly) despite rising prices elsewhere. That company is Costco.
The Singing Politician
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Pro Research Presentations Announced for 2024 Opta Forum
Following last week’s submission deadline for the second stage of the 2024 Opta Forum research competition, four projects have been nominated for showcasing on stage, with a further five recommended for poster presentations. Each proposal submitted was judged based on four key criteria: innovation, methodology, relevance and application. Now the nine strongest projects will be showcased to an invited audience of industry delegates in London.
From Hollywood to Allendale
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BrandStorytelling BrandVoice: Revolutionizing The Measurement Of Branded Funded Entertainment
By Megan Wells, Andy Cooper and Kevin Keane Another year, another Super Bowl, another lively discussion of whether the millions and millions of dollars shelled out by performance marketers moved the needle of impact for brand audiences. These commercials–often the pinnacle of many creative careers–are celebrated for their creativity and entertainment value, their excel in capturing immediate attention, creating buzz and their magical ability to create a flood of (virtual) watercooler convos.
Traders accuse Hexham of commercial suicide
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Stats Perform Secure Multiple Nominations for the 2024 Sports Technology Awards
Stats Perform has been shortlisted in three categories at the 2024 Sports Technology Awards. Opta Vision, our advanced AI-enriched performance dataset for football, has been nominated in both the Innovation of the Year and the Best Data and Analytics in Sport categories. Launched in 2023, Opta Vision combines player tracking data, captured remotely using computer vision technology, with on-ball Opta event data to generate new AI-enriched performance metrics and player fitness outputs.
Palmeiras Becomes First South American Club To Use Opta Vision
Recently re-crowned Brasileirão Série A champions, Palmeiras, are looking to get another step ahead of their rivals after announcing a new agreement to use Opta Vision to support the club’s high-performance analysis and global player recruitment operations. Launched in 2023, Opta Vision is making professional football teams around the world more competitive, on and off the pitch, by delivering previously unobtainable but critical insights into player performance and opposition tactics.
Opta Forum 2024: Stats Perform Launches Call for Proposals
Stats Perform is pleased to announce the return of the Opta Forum in 2024, with submissions to present in the event’s Pro Track now being accepted. For the second successive year the Opta Forum will take place at The Mermaid, in the heart of the City of London, on Wednesday 20th March, welcoming 500 football industry professionals.
AFC Asian Cup: Download The Stats Perform Product Overview
Five Ways to Turn Tournament Magic Into Tournament Audiences & Revenue Stats Perform have been in and around major tournaments for a very long time and have learnt a lot along the way! For January’s AFC Asian Cup, we’ll have a lot of useful tools available to help you cut through the noise, grow audiences and grow revenues. We’ve compiled a short overview pack which covers what you can get from us to help you turn the tournament magic into audience and revenues.
From Numbers to Narratives: Uncovering The Magic Of Rugby World Cup 2023
The Rugby World Cup (RWC) 2023 featured deeper data and greater access than ever before, deeper data which allowed stakeholders to create meaningful and memorable moments for fans to enjoy. Delivered by Stats Perform in partnership with Capgemini and World Rugby, Opta data powered ground-breaking new metrics, fantasy games, editorial, broadcast, social media and so much more.
How Data & Technology is Primed to Facilitate an Explosion in Fan, Broadcaster & Sponsor Interest Across the AFC
International football in Asia booming, with record figures and media value being generated for the qualification stages for the upcoming men’s Asian Cup, as well as a 63% increase in viewers for last year’s women’s competition. Underpinning this growth is the advances in new technologies, which is enabling confederations, football associations and clubs to enhance the way they engage with fans, increase visibility of their competitions and improve performance on the field.
Swipe File // Tips for creating stand-out visual sports content
See great examples of how your peers are growing their customer base, attracting lucrative sponsorship opportunities and posting consistently compelling content. Be first to fan’s feeds for maximum exposure Engage with your overseas fans Make the most out of every milestone And much much more! Hundreds of clients are using our PressBox Graphics tool in hundreds of different ways, it’s diversity is only trumped by it’s simplicity.
World Rugby, in collaboration Capgemini and Opta, are providing new data insights for the Rugby World Cup 2023
Our mission was simple: How can we provide fans deeper insights for Rugby World Cup 2023? Together with World Rugby‘s worldwide partner Capgemini and Opta data, we have created three brand new insights to be showcased for the first time at an international rugby tournament; ‘Expected Points’, ‘Momentum Tracker’ and ‘Pitch Position Insights’. These new insights aim to enhance both professional and casual conversation around team analysis and enrich the fan viewing experience during the tournament.
Watch: The Demo Series // Opta Voice
Fan Engagement Adding voice to written content and engaging fans on-the-go. Hear from our experts on how integrating AI synthetic voice, delivered at-scale, helps bring accessibility to international sports coverage, expands outlets’ reach and presents a new way for fans to interact with content.
Vicious Cycle: The Wacky World of Cyclocross Racing
In this strange sport of of pretzel-like winding courses and extreme exertion, the only way to win is to "suffer the most" President Roosevelt’s lion-hearted ode to “trying” has been applied to many, many endeavors over the years. But few activities embody the essence of Roosevelt’s words quite like cyclocross.
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From Descriptive to Predictive: Unlocking the Potential of Football Data to go Beyond Tracking
Bradford Griffiths, VP of Product Innovation, was featured in the latest issue of FC Business where he discussed the first emergence of tracking data in football 25 years ago and how tools like Opta Vision are improving the way federations, leagues, professional teams and media analyse the game today. On 25th February 1998, the French national team hosted a friendly in Marseille against Norway.
2023 Tournoi Maurice Revello & Sud Ladies Cup: Stats Perform to Facilitate Data Scouting of Future Stars
Stats Perform has teamed up with Festival International Espoirs, which will result in Stats Perform’s most detailed Opta data being collected for two of this summer’s leading youth international football tournaments.
Opta Forum Panel: Nick Cockerill and Luka Maričić talk about the convergence of media and betting
Fans, bettors… what’s the difference? Luka Maričić discusses with Nick Cockerill at the Opta Forum Stats Perform’s VP of Betting Products Nick Cockerill sat down with Luka Maričić from Superbet at the Opta Forum to discuss the different ways fast growing sportsbook Superbet is bridging the gap between users of their media products and sportsbooks.
5 Ways Our Products And Opta Data Were Used In April 2023
Stats Perform are proud to power some of the most innovative, entertaining, and rich sports experiences. Every month throughout 2023 we’ll showcase the powerful ways our customers use our products to create unrivalled experiences centred around sport. Opta-powered betting insights assisting pre-match bettors What have Stoiximan done? Mapped our pre-match betting insights alongside their betting markets in multiple languages. What experience does this create?
Beyond Tracking: The Opta Vision Webinar Series
In this 8-part webinar series, we’ll be exploring how Opta Vision, our enriched data set for football, is shifting what can be done with traditional data sets. There will be 8 sessions covering:
The Opta Forum 2023: Looking Ahead To The Day
2023 marks ten years since the first iteration of the Opta Forum, an event which has evolved over the last decade almost as much as the way we play, watch and analyse the game we’re gathering to talk about. The event first came about as the Opta Sports Pro Analytics Forum in 2014 with the goal of bringing together the best minds in Football Analytics together in one room.
Final Pro Track Presentations Confirmed for the 2023 Opta Forum
Following the announcement last month of the first projects chosen for the 2023 Opta Forum, a further four proposals, from the research competition’s Opta Vision track, have been chosen for presentation to an invited audience of industry practitioners in London later this month.
Stats Perform Shortlisted for the FEVO Sports Industry Awards 2023
Stats Perform have been shortlisted for the Tech Innovation Award at the FEVO Sports Industry Awards 2023. The Tech Innovation Award in association with PT Sportsuite celebrates organisations breaking barriers through progressive thought, invention, innovation or new technologies in their areas of the sports industry. In 2022, Stats Perform delivered a new series of AI powered predictive metrics which were used by major broadcasters including Canal+ and Amazon Prime.
First Presentations Announced for the 2023 Opta Forum's Pro Track
Following the deadline for submissions, the Opta Forum judges spent the early weeks of this year reviewing dozens of presentation proposals for the first pro research track of the 2023 event, which will be taking place next month. The judges and question setters in each practitioner-led category scored proposals based on four key criteria: innovation, methodology, relevance and application.
The Future of Sports Coverage: Part 2
For part one please see our story here. What can the Language Models and Transformers behind ChatGPT do in sport? Beyond chatbots, is there a place for language models and Generative Artificial Intelligence in sport? The answer is a resounding yes, and in our opinion is the next revolution in sports analytics, to provide deeper than ever understanding of the game to teams and fans, especially in soccer. To start, we have to specify the language of sport.
Stats Perform’s Chief Scientist on ChatGPT’s Role in the Future of Sports Coverage: Part 1
OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched towards the end of 2022. The ‘conversational chatbot,’ trained on an enormous amount of the internet’s text, quickly accumulated millions of users keen to experience a new breakthrough in the day-to-day utilization of AI technologies. But is ChatGPT relevant to sport? Does it complement or compete with Stats Perform’s own machine learning models, trained on our own enormous amount of sports data?
Payton, Buchanan Announcements to Highlight FCS National Awards on Bally Sports
The FCS stars will shine Saturday evening when the top individual awards in college football’s Division I subdivision will be presented at the Stats Perform FCS National Awards banquet in Frisco, Texas – on the eve of the national championship game. Highlighting the annual event are the announcements of the Walter Payton and Buck Buchanan awards for the 2022 national offensive and defensive players of the year, respectively.
Opta Forum 2023: Stats Perform Launches Call for Proposals
Stats Perform is pleased to announce that it is now accepting submissions to present at the 2023 Opta Forum, which will be taking place in central London on Tuesday 21st March. Next year will see the tenth staging of the event, which began life as the OptaPro Forum in 2014. Since then, the event has grown into one of the professional football industry’s leading global analytics events, attended by hundreds of staff working at clubs, leagues and federations across all levels of the game.
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How Our New Kick Predictor Is Enhancing Rugby Storytelling
We have all heard of Expected Goals (xG) in football. First introduced in 2012, it has become a staple metric among broadcasters, analysts, and fans alike. The Kick Predictor is rugby’s answer to xG and was heavily utilised during the 2022 Guinness Six Nations. Stats Perform’s Kick Predictor model applies historical Opta kicking data, coupled with powerful Qwinn AI modelling, to calculate the likelihood of a kicker scoring from their attempt at goal.
Course Information: Introduction to Football Analytics
Late last year Stats Perform announced that it will be continuing to collaborate with Birkbeck University in 2023 to deliver a football analytics module, which will outline the key fundamentals behind data concepts being applied within elite club environments. In addition to students already enrolled on Birkbeck’s Sport Management and Business of Football MSc, the module can also be completed as a short course by practitioners currently engaged in professional sport.
Pro Forum 2022: Stats Perform Launches Call For Proposals
Stats Perform is pleased to announce that it is now accepting proposals to present at the 2022 Pro Forum, which will be returning to in-person hosting in central London on Wednesday 23rd March. As a result of restrictions arising from Covid-19, the 2021 Forum was forced to take place online.
The Hundred: What Have We Learned So Far?
Cricket Aug 19, 2021 With the group stage of the first Hundred competition now over, what insights can we glean from the 59 matches completed so far? Over the course of the past month, The Hundred has seen over 15,000 runs scored across both the men’s and women’s competition.
Nuno At Spurs: The Start of a New Era in North London
Soccer Aug 12, 2021 As Euro 2020 played out this summer, the twists and turns in Tottenham’s seemingly endless search for a new Head Coach threatened to compete with European football’s showpiece for newspaper headlines. With the club finally appointing Nuno Espírito Santo at the end of June, what can supporters in the blue and white half of North London expect from the man who established Wolves as Premier League mainstays?
The Hundred: Players to Watch in the Men’s Competition
Cricket Jul 20, 2021 Having previously profiled five players to watch in the women’s competition, it is now time to analyse the prospects who will be looking to help their teams make their mark in the men’s Hundred. We profile two big-hitting batters from Down Under, an Englishman harbouring future international ambitions and a young bowler from an emerging country, who has already been putting established batters in a spin across a wide range of different domestic T20 competitions worldwide.
The Hundred: 5 to Watch in the Men’s Competition
Cricket Jul 20, 2021 Having previously profiled five players to watch in the women’s competition, it is now time to analyse five prospects who will be looking to help their teams make their mark in the men’s Hundred. We profile two big-hitting batters from Down Under, an Englishman harbouring future international ambitions and two young bowlers from emerging countries, who have already been putting established batters in a spin across a wide range of different domestic T20 competitions worldwide.
Vanguard Street Art, by V/A
Vanguard is an exhibition exploring the instrumental role of Bristol’s creatives in the development of British Street Art, from the 1980s to the present day.
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