Winning With Data
Jake, founder and CEO of Gemini Sports Analytics, will host guests from all over the sports industry to discuss data in sports and how AI will shape the future of predictive analytics
Episodes
37 episodes since 2023
Tim Chen - From Idea to Impact: Disrupting Industries with Data and AI
Tim Chen is a managing partner at Essence Venture Capital and part-time advisor to Bessemer Venture Partners. He was a principal engineer at Grid.ai, which created a high-level interface ...
August 23, 2024
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Episode 36
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29:09
Ben Rosenkranz on Elevating Fan Experience
Ben Rosencranz spent several years as a strategy and analytics manager with E15 before signing on with the Chicago Blackhawks. He is currently using advanced analytics and technolog...
July 26, 2024
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Episode 35
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21:22
Ken Jee - Analytics in Action: Bridging Data Science and Sports
Ken Jee is the head of data science for Scouts Consulting Group. In addition to advising senior sports executives, Ken also hosts his own podcast, He also hosts Ken’s Nearest Neighbors podc...
July 23, 2024
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19:30
Andrew Ehrenberg - Revolutionizing Sports Data: The Power of AI and Automation
Andrew Ehrenberg is the Head of Business Development at WagerWire. He has ownership stakes in four sports organization and full partnership in Eberg Capital, where he's...
July 12, 2024
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Episode 34
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20:07
Ben Alamar - Behind the Data Curtain: Insights for Coaches and Decision Makers
Ben Alamar became Director of Sports Analytics for ESPN a decade ago after the publication of his pioneering book, "Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers" ...
June 25, 2024
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25:29
Hadi Sotudeh - Precision on the Pitch: The Role of Tracking Data in Soccer
Hadi Sotudeh ⚽📈 is a doctoral student at ETH Zurich studying team tactical formations such as 4-4-2 and 3-5-2 using tracking data.He has previously worked as a football data science con...
June 10, 2024
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17:26
Varuna De Silva - Pressure Play: Measuring Athlete Performance with AI
Varuna De Silva leads the Machine Intelligence Lab at Loughborough University, applying artificial intelligence to engineering problems. This work has included ...
June 07, 2024
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18:46
Jessica Gelman - From Courtside to the Conference Room: Unlocking the Future of Sports Business
Jessica Gelman has been an influential player in sports data ever since co-founding the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference all the way back in 2008. She is currently the CEO of Kraft ...
May 08, 2024
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33:20
Keith Goldner - From Draft Boards to Betting Lines: Bridging the Gap Between Sports Teams and Betting Markets
Keith Goldner is the Vice President of Data Science, Sports Modeling & Innovation at FanDuel, one of the largest sports betting platforms in the U.S. Keith has over a decade of experie...
May 01, 2024
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20:42
Zack Scott - Decoding Data-Driven Decisions in Winning Organizations
Zack Scott is the founder and CEO of Four Rings Sports Solutions and adviser for Gemini Sports Analytics. Over the past 20 years, Zack’s data-driven leadership has directly contributed ...
April 26, 2024
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28:11
Mathieu Lacome & Sudarshan Gopaladesikan - Touchpoints and Trust: Building Data Culture in Sports
Suds Gopaladesikan is the director of football intelligence for Italy's Atalanta BC. Mathieu Lacome i...
April 22, 2024
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24:45
Matthew Lynley - From Field Notes to Future Wins: Leveraging Unstructured Data in Sports
Matthew Lynley has been a journalist covering the tech industry for more than a decade. Four years of this career have been spent covering analytics and data science - tools whi...
April 18, 2024
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28:04
Seth Stephens - Beyond the Code: How AI Transformed a Data Scientist's Game
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a data scientist who put his Harvard PhD to work at Google, as well as consulting for numerous Fortune 500 companies. His first book,...
April 09, 2024
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19:27
Matt Ober- Bridging Finance and Sports
Matt Ober is an extremely accomplished data leader turned venture capitalist. After leading Bloomberg's data operations for years, Matt served as chief data scientist for the $20 billion hedg...
April 03, 2024
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27:24
Miles Adkins - Demystifying Data Science Through Automation of Analytics
Miles Adkins has spent a decade in the data science world, from hedge fund investment models to his current position as A.I. and Machine Learning specialist at Snowflake cloud compu...
March 27, 2024
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22:45
Achille de Rauglaudre & Mathieu Lacome - The Business and Data Strategy Alignment
Achille de Rauglaudre is a Sports investor and advisor. Mathieu Lacome is author of the book "Football Intelligence" and the head performance and analytics officer with the Parma Calcio football club in Italy, where he develops on-pitch a...
March 22, 2024
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34:13
David Spezia - The Direction of Data is MORE
Self-proclaimed data nerd David Spezia served as one of the original Field CTO's at Tableau, was the Principal Sales Engineer at Snowflake during the largest IPO in software history, and is now a Distinguished Architect at Salesforce. His speci...
March 14, 2024
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29:21
David Hardoon - Innovating Data Strategy, Building and Sustaining Excellence
David Hardoon is an executive with more than two decades of international data science experience in multiple fields. In the financial sector, he headed up data and AI strategy for the central bank of Singapore and UnionBank of the Philli...
March 07, 2024
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30:36
Jordan Morrow - Implementing (or Ignoring) Analytics-Driven Data on the Field
Jordan Morrow is the founder and owner of Bodhi Data. Since 2019, he’s won 7 awards for his work on data, analytics, and AI. Bodhi Data is aiming to transfer skills in these fields to indi...
February 27, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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30:19
Andrew Madson - Finding Actionable Insights in Complex Data
Andrew Madson is the Senior Director of Data Analytics at Arizona State University, while also serving as professor at three other universities. Andrew is a solutions-focused analys...
February 18, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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19:45
Jesse Davis - The Triumphs and Challenges of Modern Sports Analytics
Jesse Davis is a computer science professor at KU Leuven, Belgium, where he supervises teams of PhD students researching A.I., data science, and machine learning. Jesse is probably...
February 15, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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22:01
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...
February 08, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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21:17
Edem Spio - International Perspective in the Business of Sports
Edem Spio, co-founder, co-host and senior producer of the Africa Business of Sport Podcast and co-founder and director of the Africa Sport Business Group. Spio is also the Media Relations Office at Toppem Sports, and the Public Relations Office...
January 31, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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20:05
Eric Siegel - The Myths and Potential of Machine Learning Operations
Eric Siegel, Ph.D., is a former Columbia University professor, founder of the Predictive Analytics World and Deep Learning World conference series. Siegel authored the bestselling book, "Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click...
January 30, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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25:32
Nancy Hensley: Talking Women's Sports, Data, and the Future of Sports Analytics
Nancy Hensley is a powerhouse in the sports industry and data-driven technology. After serving as the Chief Digital Officer for IBM's Data and AI division, she revolutionized the AI produc...
January 28, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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18:56