I am a survey statistician. I primarily work with nationally-representative surveys of youth. I am a political scientist and economist by training, and I often write (here and on my Wiki to stretch those old muscles. I am an avid self-hoster and an amateur programmer. I love trialing programmatic solutions to concrete and mundane challenges. You can find my CV and some work sampled here.
You can also find me on GitHub, GitLab, SourceHut, and LinkedIn.
These are my three most recent blog posts. More posts can be found on the 'Blog' tab.
posted on 2025-05-05
I recently spent a long weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. This is a part of a larger effort I’m making this year to see more of the Midwest.
posted on 2025-03-03
ffplay told me that my music files had invalid tags, so it was ignoring them. What gives! Well, I do recall reading that ID3 tags were meant only for MP3 files, but my workflow consisting of id3tag and id3info seemed to be working just fine for my FLAC files, too.
posted on 2025-02-02
In short, it stopped being fun. I started using sr.ht because it is an innovative and against-the-grain technology. It is bold in its simplicity.
I occasionally post on Bluesky, mostly about concerts and music.
Back from the winter hiatus, now listening to:
Jordann and Vansire live at Thalia Hall
According to Spotify I went through an 'Otherkin Skateboarding Indie' phase in January and a 'Goblincore Metropopolis Indie Pop' phase in July.
Now listening to:
Death From Above 1979 and Teen Mortgage, live at Metro
Here's my most listened to music from the last 30 days. See more on LastFM
Articles from the internet that I've been reading
I. J. Good corner: The flying Venus flytrap and other partly-baked ideas
We recently had a discussion about useless insights from social science, and commenter Adam pointed to an article on “10 evolutionary insights” from the pandemic that I thought was kinda speculative. As I put it: All its claims seem to … Continue reading →
via Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
May 5, 2025
The British Airways position on various border disputes
My spouse and I are on vacation in Japan, spending half our time seeing the sights and the other half working remotely and enjoying the experience of living in a different place for a while. To get here, we flew on British Airways from London to Tokyo, and I…
May 5, 2025
What Good Pop Culture and Bad Pop Culture Can Tell Us About International Relations
Thoughts on Andor and G20
via Drezner’s World
May 4, 2025
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