Dr. Dan Cervone is the principal data scientist at Zelus Analytics where they are building the world leading sports analytics platform. Prior to this, Dan spent three seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, most recently as Director of Quantitative Research. He completed his PhD in Statistics at Harvard University, and was then a Moore-Sloan Data Science Fellow at NYU. His work focuses on spatiotemporal data and hierarchical models, with particular application to sports analytics and player tracking data. Dan joins us today to talk about the field of sports analytics, his own research using machine learning in sports, and the future of sports analytics.
Music by Aria Khiabani with other music under the name SATRAP