The team & our instructors
Built and taught by the people who do the work.
The team that runs AthlyticZ, and the 20 practitioners who teach here — open-source maintainers, professional analysts, and working data scientists.
Leadership
Michael S. Czahor, PhD
Founder & President
President of AthlyticZ and Principal Data Scientist for AI at Broadata, with 7+ years of MLB front-office R&D across the Phillies, Tigers, and Marlins.
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Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput
Head of Operations
Founder of Hypebright and a Shiny production specialist who helps professionals build production-grade R apps that employers actually rely on.
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Stefan Linner
Senior Technical Consultant
Freelance R developer specializing in deployment infrastructure and automation, shipping production Shiny apps with ShinyProxy, Docker, and CI/CD.
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Paul Sabin, PhD
Co-Founder, Sage Sports Group | Senior Fellow, Wharton Sports Analytics
PhD statistician, co-founder of Sage Sports Group, and Senior Fellow at the Wharton Sports Analytics & Business Initiative; former VP of Football Analytics at SumerSports and ESPN data scientist.
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Chris Fonnesbeck, PhD
Adjoint Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Adjoint Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, with 20 years across academia and industry and pro-baseball R&D for the Phillies, Yankees, and Brewers.
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Scott Spencer, PhD
Applied Analytics Professor, Columbia University | Consultant, Nottingham Forest
Columbia University applied analytics professor and Bayesian statistician who has trained analysts across pro sports, pharma, and tech, currently consulting with Nottingham Forest.
Nic Crane, PhD
Open Source Developer & R Educator | Apache Arrow Maintainer
Open source developer, R educator, and consultant who maintains Apache Arrow and teaches data scientists how to work with LLMs in R.
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Christoph Scheuch, PhD
Data Scientist & Product Manager | Creator of tidyfinance
Financial economist and data scientist specializing in interactive dashboards, automated reporting, and custom R and Python packages.
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Patrick McFarlane
Director of Predictive Modeling, Philadelphia Phillies
Director of Predictive Modeling for the Philadelphia Phillies, building models that inform in-game strategy, player acquisition, and front-office decisions.
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Brad Smith, PhD
Data Scientist & Instructor | Former Player Development Analyst, New York Yankees
Data scientist and instructor with expertise in applied statistics, ML, and AI; former player development analyst for the New York Yankees and instructor in Northwestern's Master of Data Science program.
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Greg Matthews, PhD
Associate Professor & Director, Center for Data Science and Consulting, Loyola University Chicago
Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Data Science and Consulting at Loyola University Chicago, with research spanning statistical disclosure control, statistical genetics, and statistics in sports.
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Dr. Albert Rapp
Senior Data Scientist, Gen Re | R & Typst Educator
PhD mathematician and Senior Data Scientist at Gen Re who teaches R, data visualization, and reporting to thousands through his “3 Minutes Wednesdays” newsletter and YouTube channel, with extensive published tutorials on Quarto and Typst.
Arkadi Avanesyan
Quantitative Finance Expert & Educator
Quantitative finance expert and educator with 10+ years across index development and portfolio analysis, and 50,000+ course enrollments.
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Joseph Barbier
Data Consultant | Founder, Yellow Sunflower
Data consultant and founder of Yellow Sunflower, focused on making data workflows simpler, more reproducible, and visually clear.
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Maddy Brown
Mathematics PhD Student, University of Washington | Sports Analytics Creator (@wnbadata)
Mathematics PhD student at the University of Washington specializing in probability, and creator of @wnbadata sharing WNBA and women's basketball analytics.
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Evan Callaghan
Data Science Instructor, AthlyticZ | Creator of FoundationZ
Data Science Instructor at AthlyticZ and creator of FoundationZ of Data Science, and a graduate teaching assistant at Queen's University teaching calculus and statistics.
Jasmine Daly
Principal Consultant & Founder, Daly Analytics
Biomedical engineer turned data scientist and founder of Daly Analytics, bridging complex data and practical solutions for startups through Fortune 500s across aerospace, medical devices, biotech, and fintech.
Saiem Gilani
Lead Engineer, SportsDataverse | Machine Learning Engineer
Machine learning engineer and lead engineer for the SportsDataverse open data organization; author of cfbfastR, hoopR, and wehoop.
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Charlotte Hadley
Founder, Visible Data
Data visualization coach, evangelist, and maker who helps people turn analysis into clear, compelling data stories.
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Saiprasad Kagne
Sports Data Scientist | Founder, BallTrack Analyzer
Sports data scientist with 4+ years in cricket analytics, founder of BallTrack Analyzer, turning complex sports data into clear, useful stories.
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Deepansh Khurana
Founder, Dimwit | Data Scientist & Open Source Developer
Artist and programmer from Dehradun, India who builds production systems, speaks at international conferences, and runs the one-person software lab Dimwit.
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David Granjon, PhD
Lead Shiny Developer, cynkra | Creator of shinyMobile
Lead Shiny developer at cynkra and creator of shinyMobile, with a PhD in applied mathematics and a background building production Shiny apps in pharma.
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Amrit Vignesh
Lead Sports Trader, Premonition | ORFE @ Princeton
Princeton ORFE student and Lead Sports Trader at Premonition, with R&D experience across the Pittsburgh Penguins, Big League Advantage, and AthlyticZ K-12.
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They teach in the live Masterclass, in self-paced courses, and in hands-on workshops.
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