Fansided · Apr 28, 2016
Minnesota Vikings: Analytics guru likes Laquon Treadwell
The Minnesota Vikings have employed data scientist Jared Lander in the past, and this year Lander is high on Laquon Treadwell.
As we sift every report looking for clues about what the Vikings might do with the #23 overall pick, it’s worth noting this particular Wall Street Journal story about data scientist Jared Lander and his analytics-based assessments of this year’s prospects.
Lander is a professor at Columbia and is called by the piece “a rising star of data science.” His method involves running “variables thousands of times through an ensemble of machine-learning algorithms.” In other words, this guy’s incredibly smart and he knows his numbers.
