Samuel Baird
Data tools and videos about religion, history and ideas.
I build public data projects, keep a map of the sacred places I visit, and make videos about what people believe and why. Everything here is free and independent.
Projects
Things I’ve built
Start with Latter-day Stats, the largest of them.
Latter-day Stats
A public, independent hub for statistics, research and creator data on the Latter-day Saint community: survey data, charts, a research library and a directory of LDS YouTube creators.
latterdaystats.samuelbaird.com →- Data Explorer: charts from Pew and other surveys
- Studies: curated academic research library
- Channels: LDS YouTube creators, tracked
Sacred Sites Visited
The churches, temples and houses of worship I’ve visited since January 2025, filterable by tradition, place and year.
samuelbaird.com/sacred-sites → Reading logMy Reading
Books and articles I’ve read, with the date I finished each one and a link to the source.
samuelbaird.com/books →Writing & video
Where I talk it through
YouTube
Videos on history, belief and data.
@ithinkthereforeisam → NewsletterSubstack
Written pieces and notes.
ithinkisam.substack.com → Contributed toPulpit
Every General Conference discourse since 1830, each traced to its best surviving witness. A Restoration Commons project I contributed to.
pulpit.restorationcommons.org →Contact
Get in touch
Questions, corrections, collaboration or press: email is best.
Elsewhere
Support
If these projects or videos have been useful, you can chip in toward hosting, or send a book from my wishlist.