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How We Built an NFL Draft Model for the Minnesota Vikings in 2015
The story of how a scouting intern, a data scientist and a draft board full of blue stickers helped bring machine learning into an NFL war room
Lander Analytics Team
5 days ago6 min read
rpeat: A Better Way to Schedule Jobs
A cron alternative for a more civilized age
Gus Lipkin
Apr 144 min read
Geospatial Data at Scale (Part 3): Visualizing Millions of Points
How modern geo stacks handle massive datasets
Lander Analytics Team
Apr 74 min read
AI Is Not a Layoff Strategy
Use AI to upskill your team, close capability gaps, and create more value
Jared Lander
Mar 313 min read
Geospatial Data at Scale (Part 2): Why Your Spatial Queries Are So Slow
From six hours to seconds: speeding up geospatial queries
Lander Analytics Team
Mar 244 min read
Geospatial Data at Scale (Part 1): Why File Format Matters
The wrong format can 10x your storage costs before analysis even begins
Lander Analytics Team
Mar 174 min read
The Container Orchestration Complexity Trap
Finding the balance between simplicity and scale
Travis Knoche
Mar 105 min read
Do You Really Need an AI Platform or Can Open Source Get You 90% There?
When open models are enough
Joe Marlo
Mar 35 min read
R Community Rejoice: Coding Assistants for R Users
What Claude Code gets right (and wrong) as an R coding assistant
Lander Analytics Team
Feb 245 min read
Claude Code as an Agentic Workflow Library
From messy ideas to working agents in a single session
Joe Marlo
Feb 184 min read
DGX Spark Series (Part 2): Configuring the server with Ansible
When AI actually helps write infrastructure code
Jared Lander
Feb 123 min read
DGX Spark Series (Part 1): Setting up the DGX Spark
Serious AI compute, no data center required
Jared Lander
Feb 103 min read
An LLM predicts the winner of Super Bowl LX
How to get a real prediction from public data with better prompts
Mike Band
Feb 56 min read
Why We Don't Just Trust the Model
The case for grounding, retrieval, and verification in enterprise AI
Joe Marlo
Feb 35 min read
Can Small and Medium-Sized Organizations Compete in AI?
How nimble teams create real value with the resources they already have
Jared Lander
Jan 275 min read
Welcome back to the Lander Analytics Blog
A place where data-driven exploration meets practical LLM solutions
Jared Lander
Jan 213 min read
Highlights from the Ninth Annual New York R Conference
Over four days in July, data scientists from around the world convened at the French Institute in New York City for the ninth annual New...
Lander Analytics Team
Aug 10, 20235 min read
The Best of the 2022 Government & Public Sector R Conference: Collaboration, Insights & Fun in D.C.
The fifth annual Government & Public Sector R Conference was back in Washington D.C. (& virtually online) on December 1st & 2nd,...
Lander Analytics Team
Jan 4, 20236 min read
The New York R Conference Returned to the Big Apple
For the first time in three years, the R community gathered together in person for the annual New York R Conference. It was so wonderful...
Lander Analytics Team
Aug 8, 20224 min read
Newest Member of the R Consortium
With so many industry-leading organizations as supporters, Lander Analytics is very proud to announce we are now members of the R...
Lander Analytics Team
Jan 11, 20221 min read
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