Breaking Down Unmute, Our 3rd Place Entry at the Gemini 3 Hackathon

I first stumbled upon Singapore Sign Language while I was looking for electives at NTU. While I was never able to take the module myself, NTU’s excellent website allowed me to learn more about the history of Sign Language in Singapore. In particular, I was impressed by their extensive recording and documentation of more than a thousand unique signs.

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Serving Insights: Improving Data-Driven Badminton Analytics with Computer Vision and Machine Learning

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After my first URECA project on football analytics, I was eager to embark on a second research journey. Working again with Assoc Prof John Komar and Julian Tan from NIE, we tackled the challenge of building a data collection pipeline for badminton using computer vision and machine learning. This article outlines our journey in developing the system and our initial findings.

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Open Source Web Apps for Sports Event Tracking

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Data has never been more accessible in sports analytics. Companies like Hudl Statsbomb, Second Spectrum, and Opta provide in-depth coverage of almost every sport and well-known league in the world, available through released datasets, data scraping, or commercial licenses. But how would you go about collecting data for grassroots teams or less popular sports, when there’s no vendor available?

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Data Analytics in Football - Defining the Playing Styles of Singapore PL Teams

From August 2022 to May 2023, I had the opportunity to work on my first research project as a participant of NTU’s URECA1 program. I’ll write a full recap of my journey as an undergraduate researcher after the next academic year, but in many ways, this was the perfect project for me. It allowed me to work on a field that I have been passionate about for many years - sports analytics in football.

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The Impact of Thierry Henry

Thierry Henry

After an outstanding twenty-year playing career, mercurial forward Thierry Henry entered the coaching world with the aim of emulating the success he achieved as a player. Following stints as a youth coach at Arsenal and an assistant coach at Belgium, Henry took over the reigns of a struggling AS Monaco from Leonardo Jardim in October 2018.

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