Garrett Petersen

Economist and
data scientist.

Data leader and scientist with a PhD in Economics, focused on blockchain/DeFi and prediction market data systems.

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Marque & Reprisal on a pixel-art sunset at sea
Primary focusGameComing soon on Steam

Marque & Reprisal

A globe-spanning sailing roguelike · 1522

Explore. Trade. Fish. Whale. Colonize. Fight. Pillage. Survive. You are a sea captain in the year 1522, and the whole world is yours to discover in this roguelike sandbox historical sailing simulator.

  • Canvas
  • Electron
  • Geospatial data
  • Cloudflare
The Twenty-Four Histories title in Chinese and English
Primary focusDigital humanities4,099 chapters translated

Twenty-Four Histories

Canonical records of Chinese history from antiquity to the Ming Dynasty

24 Histories provides complete English translations of the Twenty-Four Dynastic Histories (二十四史), the canonical collection of Chinese historical records spanning from ancient times through the Ming Dynasty.

  • Static generation
  • Search
  • Translation
  • Publishing

Games and products

A daily Connecdoku word grid
Word gameNew puzzle daily

Connecdoku

Organize the 16 words into a 4×4 grid where each row and column forms a category.

Connecdoku is a word game. It features a 4×4 grid of words. The user may click a word followed by another word to swap them. The goal is to make valid semantic sets in every row and column.

Ask Thane task follow-up product card
ProductLive

Ask Thane

Task follow-up for team conversations.

Ask Thane finds commitments, sends reminders, routes pings to the right place, and reports what moved.

A pixel-art fox detective from mystery.farm
Puzzle gameNew mystery daily

mystery.farm

A daily genealogical murder mystery.

Every day at midnight, a new crime is committed on the farm. As the lead detective, your job is to reconstruct the family tree of the residents using DNA evidence and witness testimonies to identify the killer.

Other work

Economic modelInteractive model

Housing Supply Lab

How housing scarcity creates a wealth transfer from the young to the old.

MathematicsPaper + verifier

Hilton–Zhao Counterexample

Wagner-graph counterexample to the Hilton–Zhao vertex-splitting conjecture

About

I build production analytics platforms and decision models end-to-end.

Experience spans data engineering, applied econometrics, and production analytics for fast-moving crypto market environments.

I ran and hosted the Economics Detective podcast and blog from 2014 to 2021.

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