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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...