Science. Development. Datactivism. And everything in context.
Over at my Hungarian blog (dubbed székelydata) I am launching the second edition of Transylvania’s first data visualization competition – aimed at young people and fresh university students! You do need to understand quite a bit of Hungarian in order to grasp what’s going on, but hey, I thought it would be nice to let you know. This year’s topic … Continue reading 🏆 II. székelydata dataviz competition
Hi all, Dénes here! Today Try something new. Everyday. becomes Kontext. This is to reflect the broadening in scope of the blog to include complex systems analyses as well. I have recently reshaped my online portfolio into 6 distinct channels across all platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube). Thank you ❤️ for all of your support and … Continue reading Rebranding
The other day I got into a discussion about the International Space Station (ISS), namely where does its crew come from. I started reading up on it and I figured that it is worth a quick visualization. So I’ve created an interactive one, in echarts. The data comes from here and the code is here. … Continue reading ISS crew by country 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇯🇵🇪🇺🇨🇦
I’ve fiddled a bit more with the F1 circuits’ geocenter map that I’ve created back in 2014, as one of my first D3.js projects. Earlier this year, it got another update to include WRC and MotoGP history as well. Now I’ve included Formula E. As the viewership numbers of F1 are sharply declining, I believe … Continue reading Formula E ePrix around the world
My country is experiencing another massive wave of protests. This is time it is the diaspora that came home to express their frustration with the current occupiers of our Parliament. It is the same diaspora that helped put our current president into office back in 2014, with high hopes. Yet the “thieves” (hoții in Romanian, … Continue reading Romania: where communism rumbles on in Europe
