Collection of short posts and short stories.
Maybe you missed it. Maybe you didn’t. But The Odyssey Was for Sailors, is the most ambitious piece of visual storytelling I’ve ever done. It brings together five to six years of Data Journalism, one to two years of learning…
There is a hard word to translate in The Odyssey. And it’s in the second line of the epic poem. It is the epithet—the adjective, or byname—for Odysseus. In the proem, or the invocation to the muse, Homer asks the…
I spent 14 hours creating a custom data visualisation (a recreation of a template that took 15 minutes to customise). Why? We’ll get to that later. But for now, it means you can get a behind-the-scenes peek of how your…
FIFA, you insanely corrupt institution. (Source: BBC)
“Luck and risk are both the reality that every outcome in life is guided by forces other than individual effort. They are so similar that you can’t believe in one without equally respecting the other. They both happen because the…
In the vast swamp of ignorance that has been the debate about AI in the workplace, I’ve slowly been coming to the conclusion… There is a large number of people with full time knowledge work jobs that don’t understand the…
The trouble with being so emotionally invested in planning for the future, though, is that while it may occasionally prevent a catastrophe, the rest of the time it tends to exacerbate the very anxiety it was supposed to allay. The…
I was 17-18 the first time I read The Book of the New Sun, and I remember it melting my mind. For the first time everything I’d hated about English classes: the interpretation of what authors meant, the use of…
Source: How English costs the English — Janan Ganesh, FT
D3 is a b***h of a language at first glance. It’s long. It’s complicated and verbose. You have to enter what feels like an obscene amount of key strokes to draw one line. I’m currently about one-third of the way…