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The Meetup That Helped Build New York’s Open-Source Data Community
For more than a decade, Lander Analytics has helped organize one of New York’s most durable data communities

Jared Lander
5 days ago5 min read


Orchestrating the Messy Stuff: Why We Use Kestra
When scheduled jobs become full workflows

Gus Lipkin
Jul 146 min read


Hardening the Pipeline: Container Security Beyond Zero Trust
Modern security has to verify the software ingredients flowing through the build process

Travis Knoche
Jul 75 min read


Five Things We’re Watching in AI This Summer
What Fable and Mythos revealed about frontier model adoption, why model routing is becoming practical, and more from the Lander team.

Lander Analytics Team
Jun 307 min read


DuckDB’s Quack Protocol Solves the Problem I Kept Working Around
Why multi-process writes may finally stop sending me back to Postgres or folders full of Parquet files

Gus Lipkin
Jun 234 min read


DGX Spark Series (Part 4): Setting up the Hermes Agentic Assistant
Everyone wants an AI assistant. Here's how to build one that keeps your data where it belongs.

Jared Lander
Jun 168 min read


What Was More Improbable: The Knicks’ Game 4 Comeback or the Patriots’ Super Bowl LI Rally from a 28-3 Deficit?
Using ESPN win probability models, the answer is surprisingly close, and probably closer than the exact decimals suggest.

Mike Band
Jun 115 min read


DGX Spark Series (Part 3): When the Wrong-Sized GPU Is the Right Call
What we learned serving Chronos-2 from an R-friendly forecasting pipeline
Joe Marlo
Jun 97 min read


Zero Trust's Blind Spot: The Unmanaged Package Manager
How R and Python package installs create software supply chain risk

Travis Knoche
Jun 15 min read


Building a Computer in R
One Time When R Wasn't a Language for Statistical Computing and Graphics

Gus Lipkin
May 267 min read


Vibe Coding Gets You to a Working Demo, But Engineering Is What Makes It Hold Up
AI coding agents are becoming useful interns, but teams still need judgment, taste, infrastructure and review before the code is something they can actually run.

Jared Lander
May 197 min read


You Probably Don’t Need RAG for Your Agent’s Knowledge Base
We connected 16 repos with markdown files, grep, and zero new infrastructure
Joe Marlo
May 123 min read


Train-test-evaluate is not dead yet
The old workflow still wins when it matters

Lander Analytics Team
May 55 min read


The Anatomy of an LLM Tool Call
How a prompt engineering trick unlocked agentic AI
Joe Marlo
Apr 283 min read


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
Apr 216 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
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