Fans attending this year’s Australian Open have access to real-time interactive data thanks to IBM’s SlamTracker and CrowdTracker. SlamTracker, already popular with fans, adds player and ball movement data to its wealth of match information. “Last year, visualization was m

We venue managers share many similar issues, concerns, and goals regardless of our type of venue. The safety of our participants, ticket holders, partners, employees, and everyone else involved with our operations, as well as the security of our venue itself, are topics that concern u

Pop quiz: What does VenueDataSource (VDS) provide IAVM members? Answer: Resources, membership value, empowerment, and information. IAVM represents more than 2,000 venues around the world. We are stronger together, and the key to moving our facilities forward is information and communi

IAVM, and specifically VenueDataSource, received some love from architecture firm HKS earlier this month. “Several years ago, we learned that IAVM initiated a project called VenueDataSource, which gathers data on operational costs and revenue in IAVM member convention centers, s