All the data you can eat
Ever notice how the far right come up with some really weird terms to describe those they disagree with (ie everyone else)? There is, apparently, method behind their grammatical madness. Continue Reading
European explorers of the 18th Century have a lot left to answer for, but tracing their journeys sure is purdy. This collection of visualisations (including an animated video) plots the Continue Reading
Ah, the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, what does that old fraud really know? Turns out, he’s pretty clued up on the implications of Big 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
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
Wanna join the ever expanding Code for Africa and help to seek out and destroy government propaganda wherever it hides? Good news, a position for a digital sleuth doing just Continue Reading
