ABOUT

Economics student, occasional software builder, slower runner than I'd like to be.

I study Economics and Political Science at UCLA, where most of my time goes to quantitative policy work — pulling from public data, structuring it, and trying to say something true with it.

When the analysis needs a tool that doesn't exist, I build it — usually in Python or a small web app, badly documented, working anyway.

Outside of that: long runs, worse climbs, and a reading list that leans harder into decision theory than it probably should.

"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" — Thoreau, and the rule I try to build every model by.

CURRENTLY

UCLA, Economics & Political Science ('27)

TOOLS

Python · SQL · Excel · Figma

BASED IN

Los Angeles, CA

GITHUB

github.com/DanBason

LINKEDIN

linkedin.com/in/danielbason

Résumé

One page. Updated June 2026.

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