Garrett Petersen

Economist and
data scientist.

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

Explore the work

Current focus

Marque & Reprisal and 24histories.

These are the projects I care about most right now.

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
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
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.

  • TypeScript
  • Slack
  • LLMs
  • Cloudflare Workers
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.

  • JavaScript
  • Puzzle search
  • Rust
  • D1
Economic modelInteractive model

Housing Supply Lab

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

An interactive Overlapping Generations (OLG) model that simulates how housing supply constraints affect generational wealth, inequality, and affordability over time.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Simulation
  • Data visualization
MathematicsPaper + verifier

Hilton–Zhao Counterexample

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

This repository gives a nine-vertex counterexample to the Hilton–Zhao vertex-splitting conjecture. The construction is hand-checkable and is accompanied by a complete paper and two independent exhaustive verification paths.

  • Graph theory
  • Python
  • SAT search
  • Reproducible research

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.

Contact

You can contact me at

[email protected]