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silver linings — issue #61

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

Zafirah Zein
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Countering climate doom

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

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Pei Ying
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5 tips for better writing

The first thing that must be understood about writing, is that anyone and everyone can write. The key question is: how do we write well?

Kontinentalist
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Humans of Kontinentalist: Griselda Gabriele

Hi Griselda, when did you join Kontinentalist?

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What we learned from creating a viral map

Exactly a month ago, we published this map to show the distribution of lottery winners across Singapore Pools outlets in anticipation of…

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Ying Xuan’s Journey to the Maps: Interning at Kontinentalist

My name is Ying Xuan and I am currently a third-year student at the National University of Singapore, majoring in Environmental Studies…

Rifqi Ruhyattamam
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Docker — Time to Isolate Up The Development Environment to Containers!

The story of how did we migrate to Docker as a development environment. Let’s get to know more now!

Kontinentalist
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Humans of Kontinentalist: Ying Xuan

In this edition of Humans of Konti, we catch up with Ying Xuan. Ying Xuan interned at Kontinentalist for a month from December last year…

Griselda Gabriele
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Make It Matter: Spider-Verse (Animator’s perspective)

Being the seventh Spider-Man film, added only a year after Spider-Man: Homecoming and a PS4 game, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse could…

Kontinentalist
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Mapping Kontinentalist’s resolutions for 2019

As a small startup, Kontinentalist often relies on our people to shape our objectives and content. For the editorial team, our stories…

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Humans of Kontinentalist: Dylan Ng

I joined Kontinentalist officially in October 2017, however before that I was already helping out Pei Ying with some programming work…

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Halloween Horror Nights: Team Bonding

The idea of a team bonding outing had been floated a few times earlier this year and the team had discussed various ideas ranging from…

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Humans of Kontinentalist: Isabella Chua

When did you join Kontinentalist and how do you like it so far?

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Kontinentalist’s Favourite Statistics 2018

This World Statistics Day, we asked our editorial team for their favourite statistics that they have come across whilst writing or…