Jared Lander is a rising star in data science and was featured in the Wall Street Journal for his work on dissecting the 2016 NFL draft. He is also the Chief Data Scientist of Lander Analytics, organizer of several meetups and conferences, author of R for Everyone, and an adjunct professor at Columbia University. Jared will be speaking at Influx/Days 2017 about modeling time series data in R, discussing various techniques including traditional methods like ARMA, tools like Prophet, and machine learning models like XGBoost. He has experience in both academic research and industry, is active in the data community, and frequently speaks at conferences around the world.