Pretty original target for data visualization…

Data Sketches – Presidents & Royals

Royal Constellations

https://overcast.fm/+GtdOJ8

Get a drink and settle down for an hour about how our democracies are run.

There’s lots to ponder in her but the biggest thing for me was that Hillary Clinton can’t use a desktop. Never needed to!

From Jericho to Tokyo: the world’s largest cities through history – mapped | Cities | The Guardian

This is a lot smaller than I thought.

The video concentrates on food but start thinking of all the higher value places that this can be used; books, electronics, car hire, trains, etc.

Introducing Amazon Go and the world’s most advanced shopping technology

200,000 years of human population growth in 5 minutes

“Economists would call this an institution. Institutions are organisations or patterns of behaviour built by societies to help solve social or economic problems which the law or private markets cannot fully address.”

“Yet for many of the most important questions within economics, economists have chosen to act like institutions simply do not exist.”

The consent of the governed: The hole at the heart of economics | The Economist

Can you think of any other area of study that has such a large blind spot in it’s central research?

DesignScape is an experimental system from Adobe Research and the computer science department at the University of Toronto.

In the Future Graphic Design Layout Will Be Automated + Subtraction.com

This has to be the future of User Interface design. Xcode is full of tools to help designers but the majority of applications still look like a mess in the end.

J’ai peur pour la santé des développeurs chez Nissan.

48 hours at the GE Minds + Machines 2016 Hackathon – CSC Blogs

Who thinks of these things…