Customer Story Statistics are a slam dunk for Davidson At a school that gets a lot of attention for its basketball bona fides, one math professor boasts an elite team all his own. Tim Chartier, PhD, Professor of Mathematics at Davidson College, leads Cats Stats, an extra- curricular group of math and sports enthusiasts who offer their statistical insights to coaches at Davidson and beyond. In a program that bestows no academic credit or pay, Chartier has experienced significant interest from both students and athletic teams since its founding in 2013. What started as a group of three students has doubled every year and now has 60 students performing a variety of statistical analyses for teams and media outlets. The goal of the program, Chartier says, “is to actually supply mathem

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