Nathan Young
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- @NathanpmYoungย
- 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 Iโm currently working on (add thumbs up to all those you think have the most impact)
- Effective Altruism (EA) information feeds - linking Twitter to Reddit to email ๐๐
- Twitter bots that retweets effective altruism jobs ๐
- An upvotable effective altruism jobs board
- Pushing for more Approval voting in the UK ๐๐
- Metaculus moderation ๐
- Metaculus forecasting toolsย & feature suggestions ๐
- Good Policy Ideas subredditย ๐
- Workflow toolsย upvoting board ๐
- Write a novella
- Write articles on different methods of improving institutions in the UK ๐
- Decision making tool for working out your weights
- UK policy community
- Get better at poker
- none of these
- [your suggestion above]
Past/current projects
Professional Experience
Data Science Community Managerย โ Turing-RSS Joint Lab
- June 2021 โ Present
- 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
Founder and Directorย โ The Coronavirus Tech Handbook
- March 2020 โ August 2020
- The largest online library of resources around Coronavirus.
- 600k hits, 4000 projects, 130+ sections.
- โInspiring...and well-organisedโ - Dr Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science.
- Media:
Open Data Consultant and Project Managerย โ Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
- Sep 2019 โ 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 teamโs recommendations forward in their Big Green Data strategy
- Project managed a team of 4
Residential Fellowย โ Newspeak House
- July 2019 โ 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 Designerย โ Frostwork Media Ltd
- 2016 โ 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
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