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A behind-the-scenes look into our long-form stories, events, and all the fun stuff we get up to!
COVID-19: Konti’s work-from-home experience
By now, you may have seen the phrase ‘flatten the curve’ floating around the Internet.
How to market a Kontinentalist Story
Our thought process behind marketing stories rich with data visualisations.
Musings of a history major in the field of data visualisation
“Oh, study history. Next time you’ll be a teacher, right?”
Kontinentalist’s 2020 New Year’s Resolution, Secret Santa style
Christmas ended last month, but we’re not quite ready to say goodbye yet. That’s why we did our New Year’s Resolution in a Secret Santa…
Konti in retrospect 2019
We started 2019 by mapping out our resolutions for the year (both personal and professional). The year flew by and we grew so much as a…
A day in the life of a programmer at a startup
Hi, I’m Dylan, the lead developer at Kontinentalist. So as a developer, people often think that my work entails sitting in front of my computer all day, with 1s and 0s filling my screen. They are wrong. I have three screens! 😉 Today, I’ll walk you through a typical
How to tell data-driven stories
We conducted a workshop for our writers recently, and below are some of the highlights.
Visualising a team bonding retreat
Inspired by the Dear Data project where two designers sent each other visualisations describing their week, our team decided to try…
How are maps used in video and tabletop games?
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!
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
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…