Fast break AI: How Databricks helped the Pacers slash ML costs 12,000X% while speeding up insights

ANALYSIS: Stats might be everything in basketball — but for Pacers Sports and Entertainment (PS&E), data about fans is just as valuable. Yet while the parent company of the Indianapolis Pacers (NBA), the Indiana Fever (WNBA) and the Indiana Mad Ants (NBA G League) was pumping untold amounts of it into a $100,000-a-year machine learning (M…Read More

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