Jonathan is Software Developer at the Guardian. He works on the Membership Acquisition team, who spend most of their time A/B testing new ways of convincing people to support their independent journalism. His passions are A/B test design, creating programs that challenge people's perceptions of themselves and using data analysis/visualisation to persuade and confound.
Prior to joining the Membership Acquisition team, he worked on the Guardian's native Android app and before this, he gained a MEng in Computer Science from the University of Bristol.
Talks I've Given
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Lightning Talk: Guardian Article Bechdel Test
Featuring Jonathan Rankin
The readership of news websites skews towards men. Why? Could this be down to a gender bias in the content? Are the stories mostly written by and about men? Could this bias be exposed? Could exposing it make a positive change? A JavaScript Chrome Extension tries to find out.
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