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Re:Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer Job Posting by thom on Saturday January 25, 2025 @11:28AM (#42822582)
That's extremely good for a job in soccer analytics. It's a really fun domain, you'd be working with very smart and bought-in people at Arsenal, and they have their own collection operation so control their own destiny in a way a lot of other places don't.
Re:Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer Job Posting by swyx on Saturday January 25, 2025 @02:02PM (#42823723)
what is a "collection operation"?
Re:Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer Job Posting by chdove on Saturday January 25, 2025 @02:24PM (#42823934)
Hiring manager here!

Aside from 3rd party data, we contract with a nonprofit in Laos where operators collect event data for us (~2000 data points per match) across roughly a dozen leagues worldwide.

We also extract player tracking data from video.

Re:Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer Job Posting by staticautomatic on Saturday January 25, 2025 @10:39PM (#42827509)
Why … how … Laos?
Re:Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer Job Posting by chdove on Sunday January 26, 2025 @06:07PM (#42835235)
TL;DR - Our department was originally an independent football analytics startup

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/17/arsenal-pla...

Re:Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer Job Posting by puppymaster on Saturday January 25, 2025 @10:54PM (#42827567)
and probably bump fist with Jesus on your way to the parking lot!
Re:Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer Job Posting by chdove on Sunday January 26, 2025 @06:12PM (#42835276)
I had to re-read this a couple times, ...but yes!