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Kontinentalist
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What Rivers Remind Us Of— issue #66

Indigeneity teaches us memory, and like rivers, carries us back to the contested places we call home, their interconnections, and the responsibilities they demand.

Munirah Mansoor
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Crafting Air Pasang Surut

Making meaning with Orang Laut Singapore for Hari Orang Pulau.

Recent Posts

Mick Yang
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Meet the Community! Harim Jung, data viz expert and nuclear engineer

Harim is a Korean nuclear engineer by training who has worked in Abu Dhabi. She learned data visualization on her own and is an avid…

Kontinentalist
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Our spiciest issue yet — issue #23

Till this day, my parents cannot enjoy a meal—even Western dishes like grilled steak or pasta—without some chilli padi, soy sauce, and a squirt of limau juice. As a young girl, I was inspired by my family to improve my tolerance for heat, starting with McDonald's

Siti Aishah
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So you want to code a data story?

“So you want to be a web developer?” “Yeah! I wish I could make stuff like this too!”

Mick Yang
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Meet the Community! Ri Liu, data viz designer/developer

Ri graduated from Queensland University of Technology with a degree in Communications Design/Creative Industries/IT. She worked as a…

Griselda Gabriele
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A deep dive into our editorial illustration process

Let me share with you how we came up with our editorial illustration direction and workflow — and what we learned along the way.

Kontinentalist
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Asia's majestic forests — issue #22

Two years ago, I managed to catch The Great Animal Orchestra, an exhibition of animal recordings captured in the wild by bioacoustician Bernie Krause. In a pitch black room, the bright bars of a spectrogram flashed on the walls, freezing each species' cries in the forest. It was a

Isabella Chua
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Answering students’ questions about data storytelling—an inexhaustive guide

Last month, Mick and I had the great fortune of conducting office hours for students from the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam…

Mick Yang
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Meet the Community! Catherine Ma, Communications PhD student at University of Miami

We’re excited to bring you our first interview of our Community initiative! Launched in late February, we’ve been hungrily scouring the…

Isabella Chua
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Konti goes on an excursion to Yale-NUS!

Our mission? To coach Yale-NUS students to tell the best data story they can in a data competition!

Kontinentalist
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A country of immigrants — issue #21

The history of humankind is one of migration. We only ever leave our homes in search of a better life elsewhere, and that has been the force moving human beings out of Africa and into human settlements all across the world. We all seek the same things in new lands—

Mick Yang
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Humans of Kontinentalist: Munirah Mansoor

I sat down with Munirah, who is learning about the art of visualising information during her 9-month traineeship at Kontinentalist.

Isabella Chua
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What we did to prepare ourselves as first-time speakers at the Outlier data vis conference

Outlier was a much-celebrated online conference by the Data Visualization Society (DVS) that took place from 4–8 February 2021