Day-Yi - The Passion for Sports, Data and Education

Day-Yi is a lecturer at Princeton's Center for Statistics & Machine Learning.  Yi has taught college-level math courses, trained corporate clients, and built his own consulting practice focused on data technologies. His client list includes companies such as New York Life, Unilever, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of China. He has also taught at Columbia, where he was selected as a finalist for Columbia’s Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2021.  

Yi is passionate about three things: sports, data and education. In this episode, Yi discusses how he's creating unusual blends of all three. He'll explain why college students are lining up to take his Princeton class on Taylor Swift, and how that connects to a Monte Carlo simulation that has so far predicted playoffs with 100% accuracy. Yi has lots of valuable advice to share - from building a data analytics career to the best Korean restaurant in New York City.