Isaac Baumann
@ibaumann.bsky.social
📈 and 🐈 | Econ PhD candidate at UIC
Formerly: data stuff at UW-Madison and the media industry; SDSU and Mizzou alum
Formerly: data stuff at UW-Madison and the media industry; SDSU and Mizzou alum
Learning something useful every day
bat-signal to @eddelbuettel.com for github.com/eddelbuettel..., cran.r-project.org/package=bspm ... do yourself a favour! (Also remembering using some distro in the old days - Gentoo? where everything got compiled from source, ugh ...)
GitHub - eddelbuettel/r2u: CRAN as Ubuntu Binaries
CRAN as Ubuntu Binaries. Contribute to eddelbuettel/r2u development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 9, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Learning something useful every day
`install.packages(‘sf’)’ on Ubuntu -> time to go take a walk for a half hour
October 9, 2026 at 8:03 PM
`install.packages(‘sf’)’ on Ubuntu -> time to go take a walk for a half hour
Strong contender for paper title of the year
Now out at JQC by my PhD student John Hall and Justin Nix: "[NYPD] Pursuit escalation produced clear and attributable collision harms while providing no credible evidence of crime reduction." link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Fast and the Spurious: A Causal Evaluation of NYPD’s Pursuit Policy, 2022–2025 - Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Objectives This study examines the consequences of the New York City Police Department’s late-2022 operational shift that sharply expanded vehicle pursuits. We evaluate whether the surge in pursuits a...
link.springer.com
September 25, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Strong contender for paper title of the year
My dad took me on a tour of the school he teaches at today and there was a room labelled “PODCAST ROOM” and I have some Questions
September 20, 2026 at 4:03 AM
My dad took me on a tour of the school he teaches at today and there was a room labelled “PODCAST ROOM” and I have some Questions
One of my favorite college football moments was going to a rain-soaked Yale-Howard game. At halftime the six-person Yale band put on an out-of-tune show followed promptly by the full-strength Howard band with a Super Bowl-grade performance, in front of a crowd of no more than 1,000 people.
September 12, 2026 at 2:02 PM
One of my favorite college football moments was going to a rain-soaked Yale-Howard game. At halftime the six-person Yale band put on an out-of-tune show followed promptly by the full-strength Howard band with a Super Bowl-grade performance, in front of a crowd of no more than 1,000 people.
Related: students who give you a thank-you gift near the end of the course and it’s a brand new pack of whiteboard markers
Students who nod and smile during lecture when we try to make a point?
Heroes
Heroes
September 2, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Related: students who give you a thank-you gift near the end of the course and it’s a brand new pack of whiteboard markers
I think I’m going to slowly move all of my day-to-day LaTeX writing over to Typst but I’ll admit I’m not particularly excited about the fixed costs of converting my custom TeX templates
August 29, 2026 at 6:10 PM
I think I’m going to slowly move all of my day-to-day LaTeX writing over to Typst but I’ll admit I’m not particularly excited about the fixed costs of converting my custom TeX templates
Rolling this one out again while the job market cycle is ramping up
August 27, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Rolling this one out again while the job market cycle is ramping up
I am declaring it fall and will not be looking at a calendar to see how premature that is!
August 23, 2026 at 1:07 PM
I am declaring it fall and will not be looking at a calendar to see how premature that is!
Periodically checking The List to ctrl+f “econ” and make little mental notes
August 23, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Periodically checking The List to ctrl+f “econ” and make little mental notes
Was just on a Metro bus that hit a cyclist while merging lanes on University Ave. I don’t know if the driver just wasn’t checking his mirrors or what, but it was a pretty loud thump followed by someone saying we hit someone
August 12, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Was just on a Metro bus that hit a cyclist while merging lanes on University Ave. I don’t know if the driver just wasn’t checking his mirrors or what, but it was a pretty loud thump followed by someone saying we hit someone
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Yeah no JSM prep is going great why do you ask
July 30, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Yeah no JSM prep is going great why do you ask
My favorite scene in The Odyssey is when Matt Damon kicked his helmet and screamed in frustration because what most people don’t know is he actually broke his toe in that shot
July 21, 2026 at 10:16 PM
My favorite scene in The Odyssey is when Matt Damon kicked his helmet and screamed in frustration because what most people don’t know is he actually broke his toe in that shot
Today’s “trying to work but your brain randomly remembers a thing from a long time ago to distract you” moment is brought to you by the time my hometown newspaper negged me as hard as it possibly could
July 20, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Today’s “trying to work but your brain randomly remembers a thing from a long time ago to distract you” moment is brought to you by the time my hometown newspaper negged me as hard as it possibly could
Celebrating Fourth of July weekend by donating platelets yesterday and now doubleheader softball with fireworks
July 4, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Celebrating Fourth of July weekend by donating platelets yesterday and now doubleheader softball with fireworks
Finally finished developing, scanning, and editing the first roll of film I shot in Newfoundland a few weeks ago so here are some frames #filmphotography #35mm
June 21, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Finally finished developing, scanning, and editing the first roll of film I shot in Newfoundland a few weeks ago so here are some frames #filmphotography #35mm
The degree so nice I got it twice
June 16, 2026 at 11:33 PM
The degree so nice I got it twice
Sioux Falls is nice
June 13, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Sioux Falls is nice
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Nice views as the storm moved across campus. 1 hour time lapse as the storm approached (looking west).
www.aos.wisc.edu/weather/wx_o...
www.aos.wisc.edu/weather/wx_o...
June 10, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Nice views as the storm moved across campus. 1 hour time lapse as the storm approached (looking west).
www.aos.wisc.edu/weather/wx_o...
www.aos.wisc.edu/weather/wx_o...
Really excited to see this project in its published form. Another great example of the kind of awesome research that @uwdsi.bsky.social supports
Nabin K. Dangal and more than 25 collaborators from land grant universities, industry, and government agencies conducted a network meta-analysis to assess the efficacy of fungicides in reducing disease and protecting yield in corn. Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTOFR-08-25-0079-R
June 1, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Really excited to see this project in its published form. Another great example of the kind of awesome research that @uwdsi.bsky.social supports
Managed to hit the trifecta of Atlantic Canadian tourism this week: a whale, puffins, and an iceberg. And it’s not even Friday.
May 28, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Managed to hit the trifecta of Atlantic Canadian tourism this week: a whale, puffins, and an iceberg. And it’s not even Friday.
Next semester I’ll write even smaller
May 21, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Next semester I’ll write even smaller
Fun fact: you can request the Florida voter data file and every month they’ll send you a CD with the most incredible graphic design you’ve ever seen
April 25, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Fun fact: you can request the Florida voter data file and every month they’ll send you a CD with the most incredible graphic design you’ve ever seen
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There was one report of softball size (4" diameter) #hail near Maple Bluff, WI Tuesday. (NE Madison metro)
Per NOAA's database, the only other occurrence of 4" hail in Dane County dating to 1950 was on July 2, 1960.
One of most damaging hail events in Madison history?
(📸: Kyle Obremski)
Per NOAA's database, the only other occurrence of 4" hail in Dane County dating to 1950 was on July 2, 1960.
One of most damaging hail events in Madison history?
(📸: Kyle Obremski)
April 15, 2026 at 11:23 AM
There was one report of softball size (4" diameter) #hail near Maple Bluff, WI Tuesday. (NE Madison metro)
Per NOAA's database, the only other occurrence of 4" hail in Dane County dating to 1950 was on July 2, 1960.
One of most damaging hail events in Madison history?
(📸: Kyle Obremski)
Per NOAA's database, the only other occurrence of 4" hail in Dane County dating to 1950 was on July 2, 1960.
One of most damaging hail events in Madison history?
(📸: Kyle Obremski)