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Big data, huge potential Gaming sector could see great gains from acting on rich analytics By Daniel Rothberg | Staff Writer
What would the “Moneyball” casino look like? ¶ As a Ph.D. candidate studying big data at UNLV, Ray Cho has given some thought to this question. Cho, who has 20 years of experience in the hotel industry, works as an analyst manager at American Casino & Entertainment Properties. ¶ With advancements in computing and machine learning, businesses across data, Continued on page 11
$13.7B Amount Amazon is paying to acquire Whole Foods. Some are concerned it could negatively impact the rest of the grocery industry because of the potential monopoly.
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Share of negative reviews for “Grand Theft Auto 5” in the past 30 days, in the wake of the game’s publisher Take-Two Interactive blocking the use of a popular modification tool.
1.3M
Self-described pieces of sarcasm being fed to a computer program by computer scientists from Princeton University. The data set originates from commenters on Reddit.
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Number of rides in autonomous electric vehicles Lyft aims to provide by 2025. The ride-hail company provided 160 million rides in 2016, none of which were fully autonomous.