At the risk of seeming to be a shill for Coke—and we might note that if any representatives of The Coca-Cola Company see this and are interested in becoming supporters of the Accele(RANT) we are more than interested—we would like to draw your attention to the Dept. of Fannovation website that they’ve put up in anticipation of the NCAA tournament. Note how they’re doing a very clever job of crowdsourcing ideas.

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Analysis Software Goes Beyond Elemental

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Creaform's New Data Acquisition Software

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