Nathan Young
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- @NathanpmYoung
- Co-Founder of the Coronavirus Tech Handbook, for a time the world's largest repository of tools relating to COV-19. Cited in over 100 articles eg here
- 2:1 Masters, mathematics Durham University
- Founded a web design and policy consultancy, Frostwork
Contact + Misc
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Projects (add thumbs up to all those you think have the most impact)
- Twitter bots that retweet effective altruism jobs 👍
- Pushing for more Approval voting in the UK 👍
- Weekly forecasting on Metaculus discord currently friday at 10am UK time 👍
- Good Policy Ideas subreddit 👍
- Workflow tools upvoting board 👍
- An upvote effective altruism jobs board
- Tweeting more in a structured way
- Effective altruism jobhunting discord
- UK policy community
- Linking forecasting to upvoting to email
- Metaculus forecasting tools
- Energy flow chart for religious change over time
- Energy flow chart for voting systems over time
- [your suggestion here]
Professional Experience
Data Science Community Manager - Turing-RSS Joint Lab
- June 2021 - Present 2021
- Supporting community of 20 data scientists, with external talks
- Publicise work of the lab in government and epidemiological community
- Maintain knowledge between the laboratory and the Joint Biosecurity Centre within government
Coronavirus Tech Handbook - https://coronavirustechhandbook.com
- March 2020 - August 2020
- The largest online library of resources around Coronavirus.
- 500k hits, 4000 projects, 130+ sections.
- “Inspiring...and well-organised” - Dr Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science.
- Media:
Open Data Consultant and Project Manager - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
- Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
- Built a list of individuals and communities ranked according to the ease with which we could contact them. Our team has since increased this to over 14 million people and organisations.
- RSPB has taken our team’s recommendations forward in their Big Green Data strategy.
- Project managed a team of 4.
Residential Fellow - Newspeak House
- July 2019 - July 2020
- Researching systems change in civil society.
- Helped create electiontechhandbook.uk, containing 150 tools and a community of >200 political technologists. This new community recently held their post-election debrief to measure impact.
Company Director and Web Designer - Frostwork Media Ltd
- 2016 - Present
- Websites, marketing, graphic design, corporate strategy.
- Self-motivated and self-managing.
- Learned customer management, business strategy and coding.
- Major client, Bluesky Certification, now a significant player in the UK door and window certification market.
Always happy to chat, get in touch at mail@nathanpmyoung.com or @NathanpmYoung
You can book a video call with me here
Media