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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.
Crafting Air Pasang Surut
Making meaning with Orang Laut Singapore for Hari Orang Pulau.
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…
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…
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!
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Humans of Kontinentalist: Isabella Chua
When did you join Kontinentalist and how do you like it so far?
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…
Kontinentalist exploring San Francisco
So our trip in SF continues! To utilise the time we spent on that arduous 20-hour flight, we scheduled a visit to Stanford University and Stamen Design to learn more about mapping and data visualisation. Stanford University Our first stop, Stanford University. We were invited to the David Rumsey Map
Kontinentalist at Mapbox’s Locate Day #2
Locate day one was jam-packed with insightful talks from various experts in the field. Pei Ying, our resident storyteller, wrote about our…