Recent & Upcoming Talks

I get to answer questions concerning the role of analytics in the National Football League and how analytics may affect the outcome of the 2023 Super Bowl.

Lucia and I get to discuss our upcoming book, the Field Guide to Compelling Analytics.

This presentation attempts to answer that question by exploring all the areas of the application of analytics in sports. The final point the brief makes is that by using sports data to teach k-means clustering, students are more interested in learning advanced analytical concepts.

In today’s special Team CANA spotlight episode, our host Rob Cranston will be talking with a handful of active military and veteran TEAM CANA members, about some of the special military workforce transitioning programs that are available, how to get involved in those programs, what it’s like making the transition to the civilian workforce, and how the team at CANA and the CANA Foundation are involved. A big thanks goes out to Hannah Wallace, Walt DeGrange, Cornelious Young, and Kenny McRostie for being part of today’s Team CANA veteran spotlight interview.

In this episode we will explore three different applications of O.R. and analytics in sports, from basketball, to baseball, and beyond! Joining me for this episode are Sheldon Jacobson of the University of Illinois to discuss NCAA March Madness basketball brackets, Michael Trick of Carnegie Mellon University to give insight into Major League Baseball game scheduling, and Walt DeGrange of CANA and past chairman of the INFORMS SpORts Section to discuss current and developing applications of O.R. and analytics in sports.