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AI and our need for reassurance— issue #77
AI chatbots are seemingly ready to reassure and support us unconditionally. Not surprising then that they are winning hearts worldwide. Some even prefer AI chatbots over human companions. But when we lose all friction from a relationship, what else is lost.
The Story Behind The Story of Names
The team behind our latest story on Asia's naming conventions dives into how they got inspired to produce the story, researching qualitative data, creating a speculative name explorer, and crafting relatable humorous grievances for this story.
Getting started with basemap design for map first UI — a non-cartographer’s guide
From apps like Uber and Snapchat, to storytelling platforms like National Geographic’s Geostories, the map has increasingly taken centre…
Storytelling with maps
Recently we were invited by the Data Vis Singapore Meetup group to present our story on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in China. This…
The Road to v1.0 of Kontinentalist’s website
Setting up a website from scratch may be easier than building Rome, but Kontinentalist wasn’t built in a day as well. Our Wayfinder / lead developer Dylan details his journey in making v1.0 happen. When I first joined Kontinentalist, my primary task as the head developer was to set
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?
Humans of Kontinentalist: Griselda Gabriele
Hi Griselda, when did you join Kontinentalist?
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…