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A couple of weeks ago, I moved to Dunedin, New Zealand, or Aotearoa, as it is beloved in Māori, to pursue a Master’s degree in Geographic Information Systems. I had to transfer at the Auckland International Airport, where I went through a few rounds of biosecurity checks. Before you
When we decided on “silver lining” as the theme of our latest newsletter, I thought it apt to highlight positive stories about the environment to counter the deluge of bleak, and at times terrifying climate news. Yet, while I was keen to find data or visual stories on positive climate
A few weeks ago we caught up with Rayson, our summer intern. Rayson is a third-year university student studying for a Bachelor in…
What is GIS?
Today we caught up with Dewi, our business development manager, and recently, writer! Her first story on Batik was released last week.
Rayson, who wrote this well-received story on rising sea levels, shares his intern experience at Kontinentalist.
Kontinentalist serves quite numbers of traffic everyday, and thus user experience is really important for us. One of the UX factors apart… How did Kontinentalist reduce API loading time by using Cache
We conducted a workshop for our writers recently, and below are some of the highlights.
Inspired by the Dear Data project where two designers sent each other visualisations describing their week, our team decided to try…
Our writer, Kathy, shares her thoughts on the thriving phenomenon in Japan
In our new series, we sat down with Joceline, our UI/UX designer, and Griselda, our multimedia designer, to nerd out about maps and games!