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Knowledge Discovery in Sport

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Computational Intelligence in Sports

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The chapter deals with knowledge discovery from data in sport. In the narrower sense, knowledge discovery from data refers to a data mining that also incorporates methods from other domains, like statistics, pattern recognition, machine learning, visualization, association rule mining and computational intelligence algorithms.

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Fister, I., Fister Jr., I., Fister, D. (2019). Knowledge Discovery in Sport. In: Computational Intelligence in Sports. Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03490-0_2

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