Nathan Braun
I am a programmer, data scientist and author. My current niche is "learn to code with sports", and I've published books on football, baseball, basketball, hockey and soccer.
Here's a chronological list of all posts. An RSS feed is available here. Other places to find me:
- Email: nate@nathanbraun.com
- Twitter: @nathanbraun
- Github: @nathanbraun
- Goodreads: @nathanbraun
Projects
- Percentile Feedback, a webapp to automatically calculate PF graphs (2022).
- Voice Book Notes, a webapp to take and export audio notes while reading (2021).
- Vim For Everyone, a site extolling the virtues of Vim for non-coders (2021).
- Vote Squared, a quadratic polling app (2020-present).
- Scramble Tracker, track whose shots you used during a golf scramble (2020-present)
Fantasy & Sports Analytics Projects
- Learn to Code with Soccer, soccer version of book (2022)
- Learn to Code with Hockey, NHL version of book (2022)
- Learn to Code with Basketball, NBA version of book (2022)
- Learn to Code with Baseball, baseball version of LTCWFF (2020-present)
- Intermediate Coding with Fantasy Football, project-based follow up LTCWFF (2020)
- Fantasy Math, model for weekly fantasy start-sit advice (2017-present)
- Learn to Code with Fantasy Football, book on Python & data science (2019-present)
- Fantasy Monday, a free Monday only version of Fanasy Math (2017-present)
- Draft Pick Trade Calculator, calculator to evaluate draft pick trades (2015-2018)
- Keeper Trade Calculator, calculator to evaluate draft pick keeper trades (2015-2018)
- Bayesian Fantasy Football, Bayesian model for weekly fantasy advice (2013-2016)
Environmental Economics Projects
- On Differences in Permit Prices in the EU Carbon Market, MS thesis (2011)
- BP Oil Spill, on which I worked quantifying economic impacts (2011-2015)
Book Notes
- Superhuman by Habit, notes on the book by Tynan
- Principles, notes on Principles by Ray Dalio
- Deep Work, notes on Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Three Languages of Politics, notes on the book by Arnold Kling
- Utopia's Infinite Todo List, from Ada Palmer's Terra Incognita series
Parenting Notes
- Teaching Little Kids About Randomness, notes on a game my 4 year old and I liked
- Quarantine Backyard Bird List, every bird we saw during COVID, 3/20-3/21
Other
- What Elon Musk means when he says money is a database for resource allocation
- A list of open ideas to work on.
- A backlog of productivity/self improvement experiments to try.
- Some quotes I like.
- Notes on Patri Friedman's Advice Experience Hierchy
- Notes on Ray Dalio's Designer vs Worker Level You
- A simple explanation of the Monty Hall Problem. And regression to the mean.