Scott Nicholson

Current

• Product Manager of Optimization and Analytics at Opinmind, Inc

Past

• Course Instructor and Teaching Assistant at Stanford University
• Assistant Economist at Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Education

• Stanford University
• New York University
• University of California, Santa Barbara

• University of California, Santa Barbara
• London School of Economics and Political Science

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Connections

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Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

• My Website

Scott Nicholson’s Summary

Scott Nicholson’s Specialties:

User behavior, quantitative analysis of large data sets, economic theory, user experience, web analytics, mining data for relationships between user behavior and performance metrics to extract value-enhancing insights, user choice, randomized experiments, A/B testing, split testing, advanced econometric techniques, multivariate regression

Scott Nicholson’s Experience

• Product Manager of Optimization and Analytics

  Opinmind, Inc

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

• Course Instructor and Teaching Assistant

  Stanford University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  June 2003 — September 2008 (5 years 4 months)

  • Taught 300+ undergraduate and 100+ graduate students and received several distinguished awards
  
  • Mentored, advised and guided 80 students in constructing applied econometric models to analyze real-world problems and to summarize the results in research papers
  
  • Designed course structure, interacted with students, presented material and wrote exams and problem sets for the following courses:
  -- Mathematics ‘Boot Camp’ for incoming Ph.D. Economics students
  -- Mathematics, Economics, and Statistics for incoming non-technical Public Policy graduate students
  -- Applied Econometrics for Public Policy graduate students, Stanford University
  -- Introductory Econometrics, Santa Clara University

• Assistant Economist

  Federal Reserve Bank of New York

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)

  September 1998 — January 2001 (2 years 5 months)

  • Wrote programs to collect, clean and analyze data using GAUSS, FAME, and STATA in a UNIX environment
  
  • Collaborated with small groups in putting together executive-level economic presentations and cutting-edge research
  
  • Redesigned and coded a new department intranet website and still-in-use daily data processing system that provides dynamically updated charts on the bank’s public website
  
  • Provided official bank forecasts for French macroeconomic indicators during transition to the euro

Scott Nicholson’s Education

• Stanford University

  Ph.D. , Economics , 2001 — 2008

  Dissertation title: "The Effects of Choice Context on Decision-Making: An Application to Voter Fatigue"

• New York University

  Financial Mathematics 2000 — 2000

• University of California, Santa Barbara

  BS , Probability and Statistics , 1994 — 1998

• University of California, Santa Barbara

  BA , Economics/Mathematics , 1994 — 1998

• London School of Economics and Political Science

  Economics 1997 — 1997

Additional Information

Scott Nicholson’s Websites:

• My Website

Scott Nicholson’s Interests:

consumer decision-making, psychology, applied econometrics, following tech startups, hacking my iphone, politics, color and B&W darkroom photography, traveling (Yemen, Ecuador, Ghana, Bolivia, etc.), SCUBA diving

Scott Nicholson’s Groups:

American Economic Association

•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Online Advertising Professionals
•    Advertising Professionals
•    The R Project for Statistical Computing
•    LSE Alumni
•    B2B Conversion Optimization Network
•    Predictive Analytics World

Scott Nicholson’s Honors:

• Chair, Presenter and Discussant at the Midwest Political Science Association’s 2008 conference

• Invited seminars: ITAM, Mexico City; New Economic School, Moscow; Yeshiva University, New York

• Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research, George P. Schultz Scholar, 2006-07

• Stanford University
-- Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, 2005
-- Department of Economics Teaching Assistant of the Year, 2004
-- 5-time recipient of the Department of Economics Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
-- Department of Economics Fellowship, 2001-02

• Federal Reserve Bank of New York Performance Plus Award

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