Nate Bowers

I build tools that read live data, make a decision, and tell you something true. That is the whole thesis, and every project here is an instance of it: pull in a real feed, do the work to make it trustworthy, and hand back an answer you can act on.

I grew up in the Bay Area and now study applied math and economics at Vanderbilt, with minors in data science and CS. The throughline is using data to answer questions I actually care about, across markets and oceans. I surf, which is how the surf forecasting work started.

SurfScore reconciles messy buoy reports against forecast data to score the surf. dailybriefmail searches the live web each morning and writes one brief per reader. Different domains, same shape: real inputs in, a decision in the middle, something true out. The site you're on is another instance, and I built it: the terrain is real USGS elevation data, and the ocean is driven by a live NOAA buoy reporting off the California coast right now. It tells you honestly when that buoy goes quiet.