Hi! I'm Grant Brady Williams!
Data scientist at the intersection of
econometrics, statistics, and machine learning.
Featured Work
Senior Thesis with Professor Raj Chetty
Harvard Statistics Department senior thesis under Professor Raj Chetty and Matthew Staiger exploring the spatial relationship between Latter-day Saint adherence, upward mobility, and social capital. Sample available here; email me for full access.
2026 Midterms Forecast
Built a Bayesian Hierarchical Model to forecast the 2026 U.S. midterm elections using polling data, economic indicators, and historical outcomes.
Do Handheld Device Bans Save Lives?
Staggered difference-in-differences analysis estimating the causal effect of primary enforcement handheld device laws on U.S. traffic fatalities (2010–2022). Implements TWFE, Goodman-Bacon decomposition, and the Callaway & Sant'Anna estimator.
2024 Presidential Election Blog
Weekly forecasting blog analyzing the 2024 presidential election using polling data, economic indicators, and historical trends. Built with R and deployed as a static site.
Blurtle
A timed word-guessing game with unlimited guesses. Like Wordle, but better (totally unbiased opinion). Built with vanilla JavaScript and deployed on GitHub Pages.