Tag: Measurement


Where Athletes in the Worlds Sports Leagues Come From

In 2018, most of the top professional sports leagues in North America and Europe will share an important trait: They will be more international in composition than ever before. These charts detailing the international composition of sports leagues in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

Source: Where Athletes in the Premier League, the N.B.A. and Other Sports Leagues Come From, in 15 Charts

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Time Maps The World

Photo: Peter Liu

For centuries, people have relied on the same types of maps. Whether a map is interactive or hand-colored in a book, it offers latitude and longitude as the key indexes for getting from point A to point B.But designer and software engineer Peter Liu thinks he’s come up with an entirely new way to think about mapping. What if our maps were arranged by time, instead of space?

Source: There’s An Entirely New Way Of Mapping The World, And It’s Brilliant | Co.Design

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4 Ways To Use Artificial Intelligence

Source: Stefan Leijon / Flickr Creative Commons.

Source: Stefan Leijon / Flickr Creative Commons.

The field of artificial intelligence got its start at a conference at Dartmouth in 1956. Optimism ran high and it was believed that machines would be able to do the work of humans within 20 years. Alas, it was not to be. By the 1970’s, funding dried up and the technology entered the period known as the AI winter. Much has changed since then. What can we expect in the years to come?

Source: 4 Ways Every Business Needs To Use Artificial Intelligence | Digital Tonto