“Moneyball for business”
Startup’s behavioral analytics on employees uncover ways to increase workplace productivity, satisfaction.
Mental-health monitoring goes mobile
Startup Ginger.io analyzes smartphone data to remotely predict when patients with mental illnesses are symptomatic.
Give him the hook: New data shows baseball managers when to replace the starting pitcher
As MIT’s major sports analytics conference begins, novel research provides data-based guidance for big-league skippers.
Accenture and MIT Alliance in Business Analytics launches data science challenge in collaboration with Chicago
New annual contest for MIT students to recognize best data analytics and visualization ideas.
Data-Driven: MIT infuses the rise of sports analytics
Follow the 2014 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Feb. 28-March 1 in Boston, via social media and webcast. Tickets are sold out.
New MITx course shares how data has changed healthcare, dating, and baseball
15.071 The Analytics Edge examines real-world examples and teaches analytic approaches.
New medical operations
At MIT’s ‘Innovations in Health Care’ conference, industry experts discuss how to maintain quality while reining in costs.
Bringing ‘common sense’ to text analytics
Luminoso Technologies uses artificial-intelligence research as a commercial springboard.
Wealth of words
Professor Deb Roy’s technology company, which recently sold to Twitter, analyzes social-media conversations about TV.
Accenture and MIT form alliance for advanced analytics solutions
New collaboration will develop tools and techniques focused on big data and decision science.
Companies benefit from analytics
Global study from MIT Sloan Management Review and SAS finds companies gain competitive edge by using analytics.
Sports analytics: a real game-changer
2013 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference underscores how statistics keep changing the way sports are played — and changing minds in the industry.
How numbers can reveal hidden truths about sports
MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference brings professionals and statistics-savvy fans together to study the games people play.