Isaac Baumann

@ibaumann.bsky.social

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šŸ“ˆ and šŸˆ | Econ PhD student at UIC Formerly: data stuff at UW-Madison and the media industry; SDSU and Mizzou alum

News Tribune Isaac Bauman may run cross country, but just because heā€™s an athlete doesnā€™t mean heā€™s not intelligent, too. Last year, Baumann was invited to try the Jefferson City High School Scholar Bowl Team.
An American Red Cross t shirt with looney tunes characters
Three Atlantic puffins in a row on the edge of a grassy cliff overlooking the ocean
An MA in economics diploma
A series of waterfalls on a river, floodlit, under a blue late evening sky.
A iceberg floating in rough seas
A puffin lands behind me while Iā€™m posing for a picture, then begins wadding in my direction
a humpback whale surfaces twice in a bay of blue water to blow air
Please provide constructive comments on specific aspects of the teaching assistant that need improvement - Write bigger on graded problem sets please!
A white CD with a label white background that says ā€œFlorida Department of Stateā€ in red text between two blue stripes. There are red and blue outlines of stars between the stripes. Itā€™s giving extreme Microsoft Word 2005 word art energy.
A base velocity radar view showing clear rotation moving in the direction of Middleton, WI
A radar image showing a large storm front with tornado warnings approaching Madison, WI from the west
The Music Box theater sign
An organist playing toccata and fugue in F major
A choir singing in a church
A large chorus, half of which canā€™t be seen, performing in a church with a pipe organ in the background.
A man playing harpsichord in a church
Bilbo holding the ring, asking why he shouldnā€™t eat lunch at 10:30 AM
A beige field descending into a treeline under a blue sky
Speed skates on a frozen surface
The 3rd edition cover of Applied Econometric Time Series by Enders, which is a very 1950s style cover with halves of green circles on a beige background
Current conditions at Chicago, Chicago Midway Airport: -7Ā°F (-22Ā°C) Wind chill: -30Ā°F (-34Ā°C)
A two-sided staircase underneath a hole in a roof looking upward into a rotunda. The ceilings are ornately painted.
But since the statewide cuts this fiscal year, public transit agencies, especially rural ones, have felt the impact. OATS Transit, a rural transportation agency that serves 87 counties in Missouri, lost $900,000 in state funding in 2025. Since agencies use state transportation funding to match federal funding, that translates to a total loss of $1.8 million.
A large Christmas tree decorated with passenger train line logos in the great hall at Union Station in Chicago
Two picture frames on a white wall, one with a ggplot2 cheat sheet and the other with a dplyr cheat sheet
A Christmas ornament that says ā€œmerry Christmasā€ followed by a nerds candy wrapper
Please provide constructive comments on specific aspects of the teaching assistant that need improvement. He needs a new HDMI cable
A cat sitting on some stocking on top of a speaker next to a Christmas tree
A train station with gingerbread houses and a christmas-themed train all made out of legos
April - 1805 Napoleon is master of Europe Only the British fleet stands before him Oceans are now battlefields
A train arriving at la coitat
Ralph Wiggum on a bus saying ā€œIā€™m in dangerā€
News Tribune Isaac Baumann may run cross country, but just because heā€™s an athlete doesnā€™t mean heā€™s not intelligent, too.
University Hall at UIC against a grey sky filled with snow
A screenshot of an Outlook calendar. The time cells are offset by one hour between Sunday November 2 and Monday November 3 because of the daylight savings time change.
A cat who is a dragon!
Don Corleone saying ā€œlook how they massacred my big rock Mā€
A semicircle of columns flood lit in yellow with skyscrapers in the background
A one eyed tortie on top of a cat tree
A 4 gallon blood donor pin
A car at a railroad crossing thatā€™s had the crossing bar come down on top of it
The Wisconsin state capitol framed by tree silhouettes
A short, very angular red and white lighthouse in between trees under a cloudy sky
A Nikon N90s camera
Pumpkin spice flavored cheese wedges, on sale for 20% off
A map showing an ADS-B flight path for a jet flying from Madison, WI, to Chicago, IL, and then returning to Madison, WI
A sleepy cat in the top bucket of a cat tree
A yellow bench and a shelter made of sticks leaning against a tree in a wooded area. The right part of the frame is obscured by a white stripe where the film didnā€™t advance correctly.
An old red fuel pump with a sign on the top with a winged A that says ā€œFLYING SUPER EXTRA.ā€ An old red and white waypoint beacon is behind the pump.
A field of black-eyed Susans in front of some trees; the left half of the flowers are bright yellow and the right half are darker and orange. One yellow flower stands taller than the rest in the center.
A dragonfly perched on a lotus bud above a shallow pond with lilly pads and a bright orange lotus flower
the pavilion in millennium park in Chicago with a movie screen
A fresnel lens with a US lighthouse service uniform in the background
A speed skate in front of an ice rink
A NYT Instagram post titled ā€œRenters Are Taking Over the Suburbs.ā€ The top three listed ā€œsuburbsā€ with the highest share of renters are military bases.
A crowd watching a softball game
Purple and red wreaths underneath a war memorial
A list of commits with the messages "sort of final changes," "final commit probably," and "whoops forgot to add something"
The 100 best movies of the 21st century NYT reader's ballot A Serious Man (2009) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Zodiac (2007) The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013) A Fantastic Woman (2017) The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) There Will Be Blood (2007) Mulholland Drive (2001) In the Mood for Love (2001) Phantom Thread (2017)