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Visualising the AngelList Syndicate social network
A map of the social network formed by angel investments in AngelList Syndicates. Images represent syndicates, white circles represent investors. The size of each syndicate is proportional to the amount...
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What does YouTube activity tell us about a country’s productivity?
Worried your peers are spending to much time on YouTube? Relax. Your peers haven’t heard of YouTube? You should be worried. One of the components of the recently published Global Innovation Index...
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What borough in London has the best schools? (heatmap)
The Office for Standards In Education (Ofsted) is the governmental department responsible for inspecting schools in the UK. Ofsted visits a school, writes a report and gives it a grade between 1...
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Where innovations go to die (or what Snapchat would risk by saying “I do”)
Snapchat recently turned down a $3Bn acquisition offer from Facebook, the Wall Street Journal reports. Why would they ever do that? Inspired by Benedict Evans’ post on the successful acquisitions of...
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PISA maths score and democracy
The latest PISA scores are out and Scandinavia didn’t do well. Here in Iceland it’s all anyone talks about (at least for the current news cycle). Various opinions are being floated as to why we did so...
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Visualisation of my nemesis, the London rush hour
Last week’s Economist has a great visualisation of how the London rush hour in the Underground network has evolved. Over the past decade the Tube has become more and more popular and the length of the...
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A pie chart that makes me want to cry
Datasmoothie allows users who have created reports to download them as PDF files. Sometimes the interactive web charts aren’t what the doctor ordered and a more sombre PDF is called for. While...
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