Evan Magnusson
Staff Data Scientist
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Magnusson is a Staff Data Scientist at YouTube with a PhD in economics from Stanford and 12 years of applied research and data science experience across Google, Coursera, Wayfair, and academia. He specializes in causal inference for impact measurement—running experiments and sophisticated observational methods (fuzzy RDDs with causal forests, matching, double ML) to inform product and business decisions at scale. Evan has a track record of translating technical results for director and VP audiences, training teams in causal methods, and building open-source tools (author of a Python RDD package) that bridge research and production. His work blends econometric rigor with practical forecasting and ML, and he has published peer-reviewed research and taught statistics in industry certification courses. Based in San Francisco, he’s known for accelerating analysis pipelines (e.g., orders-of-magnitude compute optimizations in research) and steering incrementality reviews across large organizations.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics and Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics and Mathematics at Brigham Young UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Oak Ridge High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Economics at Stanford University
English, Italian
Github Skills (68)
python10
power-systems10
economics10
double10
prediction10
causality10
econometrics10
controlling10
regression-models10
espn10
causal10
hypothesis-testing10
policies10
causal-inference10
energy-system10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
evan-magnusson/dynamic
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:97 pushes, 22 branches, 4 comments in 2 months
model-scoringpythontaxscoring
evan-magnusson/rdd
Sep 2018 - Aug 2019
Python tools for regression discontinuity designs
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 11 months
regressionpolarspythondesignspython-tools
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