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Authored by Raghunathan Rengaswamy,  IIT Madras Data Science, ML, AI are the flavors of the season all over the world and India is no exception.   Interest in these techniques is at a fever pitch; academicians and industrial practitioners alike are exploring the fundamental underpinnings and application potential of these techniques.   As a result, data science is being evaluated for implementation in all imaginable fields and sub-fields.   Sports is one such area with tremendous potential for data science applications.   While sports analytics has been around for a long time, sabermetrics being a prime example, the scale of what can be achieved now with analytics is quite stupendous.   Disparate data from various sources can be collected and analyzed towards making decisions regarding almost all aspects of any sport.   Take cricket, which is the focus of this blog, as an example.   Ball-by-ball commentary, video feed, bats that are actual Io...

Hi friends. Many apologies for not communicating for a long time due to certain logistics issues that were unavoidable. We are now geared up to bring to you some exciting articles on this forum soon. Meanwhile hope all of you are aware of the most happening Data Science conference in India - CoDS - COMAD, which is going to be held at Hyderabad from January 5th to 7th. Registrations are open - quickly grab your seat. There is an exciting line up of keynote and invited talks, presentations, demos and much more. More details are available at https://cods-comad.in/ Do join us at Hyderabad.