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It's always hard to take your eyes off Serena Williams. But it’ll be especially tough at this year’s U.S. Open, where the tennis champ is currently working toward a single season Grand Slam. She’s just so darn good. But what is it, exactly that makes her so good?
Sure, we can all speculate—it’s her power, her serve, her stamina, the way she controls a point. But we can’t calculate precisely what makes her game so special. IBM believes it can.
Since 1990, IBM has been working with the United States Tennis Association to support the technological infrastructure of the U.S. Open. Back in the day, that meant generating scores and keeping the website up and running. Today, it means doing those things while also analyzing millions of data points about every player, every stat, every point, in every tournament, extending back for decades to derive insight about how a given match—or career—will play out.
http://www.wired.com/2015/09/ibm-us-open-serena-williams-data/
Original Submission
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @03:29AM
TFS sucks - a content-free clickbait.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday September 04 2015, @03:47AM
I was waiting for the punchline where she was wearing an IBM product smartwatch or something.
Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat
Well, less victory than not looking like a *total* asshat
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @01:10PM
Yeah, the editors couldn't even find enough content for a dept. line. ☺