All the data you can eat
Glenn Moncrieff’s act of split-viewing today’s Google Maps images of Cape Town with aerial photography from before Apartheid’s resettlement of “non-whites” creates a powerful art. Reminiscent of Johnny Miller’s work, it’s Continue Reading
The visualisations have a bit of the Windows Solitaire victory screen about them, nevertheless, this look at what happens when you shuffle a deck of cards using different techniques is Continue Reading
If anti-vaxxers were a threat only to themselves we could sit back and let Darwin do his work. Sadly, not only do they put their children at risk of serious Continue Reading
The Guardian has been leading this week with a series of number crunching stories around carbon emissions, which it uses to show that just 20 firms have been responsible for Continue Reading
When I grow up I want to work for the Institute of Security Studies… This extremely in depth report on crime in Cape Town township Khayelitsha looks at how SAPS Continue Reading
The all-singing, all-dancing machine learning library, TensorFlow, just hit version 2, with a host of changes: tight integration of Keras; eager execution by default; and “Pythonic function execution”, whatever that Continue Reading
An argument can be made that crime numbers and statistics can make victims faceless and make the story less impactful. In this case, the victims — those of child pornography Continue Reading
Zimbabwe’s current president is famously nicknamed for a toothy amphibian because of his political agility and cunning, but South Africa used to be ruled by literal crocodiles which stood on Continue Reading
The main redeeming feature of South African legislators is that even though they sometimes come up with really bad ideas, very few laws actually ever hit the statute books simply Continue Reading
The final flights by collapsing travel agency Thomas Cook are elegantly visualised by Bloomberg, including the very last one from Orlando to Manchester. But the visualisation doesn’t tell the story of Continue Reading
