Analytics

Junkins’ Innovative Approach to Baseball Analytics at the University of Notre Dame

Passionate Athlete Turned Analytics Leader The sport of baseball has always relied on statistics. As data takes on a more prominent role in the sport, Jerod Junkins found a way to harness it for the University of Notre Dame baseball team. Junkins, who graduated in May 2023 with a double major in Business Analytics and […]

Marshall King

VerNard Helping Navigate NIL for Athletes

Navigating Name Image Likeness (NIL) Claire VeNard is helping Notre Dame students navigate the new and changing landscape of NIL. Since summer 2021, the NCAA has allowed athletes to earn money by selling the rights to their NILs. Claire talked to students in the Customer Engagement Analytics class at the Mendoza College of Business about […]

Marshall King

Mendoza Alum is Making a Difference at 84.51

Megan and her Love for Data Megan Allen (ND ’22) knew growing up that she loved data. Digging into it. Drawing useful conclusions from it. She just didn’t know how to make a career of it until she discovered Mendoza’s Business Analytics program. “I was really into the FiveThirtyEight blog since early high school and […]

Bryan Fields

The Solution to Better Living in the Digital World

Early Bridges to Data Science program Fred Nwanganga doesn’t just want kids to appreciate data, he wants them to learn  how to wrangle it, understand it and solve problems with it. The Associate Teaching Professor in the IT, Analytics, and Operations Department within the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame saw […]

Marshall King