I'm a programmer and data analyst with a background in science and engineering. A recurring theme in almost all of my work is the illumination of otherwise invisible information via aggregation, tracking and analysis. I have a resume and am likely to get emails sent to ben.engebreth@gmail.com. I live in Portland Oregon. Here are some of my projects.
Dynamic Sky
(re)Discovering Solar System objects via image processing. [process description]
- 2020: A 21.3 Magnitude TESS TNO: (493480) 2014 YZ49 • Towards a naive Moving Object Processing System • Sedna Revisited: Orbit Determination • TESS TNO: (455502) 2003 UZ413 • TESS TNO: Sedna • TESS TNO: (208996) 2003 AZ84
- 2019: TESS TNO: (55565) 2002 AW197 • TESS TNO: Orcus • TESS Field Study: 172 Asteroids Detected • Detecting Asteroids with TESS: a Preliminary Study (Terpsichore, Philomela, Leontina) • Ceres • Jupiter • Uranus • Juno • Mars
Department of Numbers
Light analysis of publicly available datasets from the Census, BLS and other public sources. Datasets include income, unemployment, rent and more. In March of 2020 I started tracking daily COVID-19 case and testing statistics by state to try to understand the US outbreak better.
camelcamelcamel
Widely regarded as the premier Amazon price tracker, camelcamelcamel had over 13 million pageviews in December of 2017. Mentions: New York Times, Wall Street Journal
camelodge
A hotels.com price tracker. We've taken the camelcamelcamel concept and applied it to hotels. It turns out that hotel prices change all the time too. It also turns out that hotels are not as willing to share this data anymore and the site is on indefinite hiatus.
HousingTracker
This site no longer exists, but I'm still quite proud of it. HousingTracker compiled housing inventory and price trends during the housing bubble by aggregating online real estate listings. The site was widely cited during the housing bubble and after the Great Recession. Housingtracker existed from 2005 to 2014. Mentions: New York Times, CNN, CalculatedRISK
Photos & Trip Reports
- 2020: PCT Miles in Oregon & Washington
- 2019: Skurka RMNP • PCT Oregon Section: Elk Lake to Timberline Lodge
- 2018: Hikes • Skurka SEKI
- 2010: Lake City Colorado
- 2009: Glacier National Park