Quick Hits

Simon Roberts, a designer and animator in London, created a slick interactive visualization called Photography Mapped to help people master their DSLR cameras.

Your phone, while powerful, hides how settings relate to each other. Roberts’s hands-on infographic simulates the experience of making a photo, and lets you explore…

In this post on the official Medium account for Singapore’s open data portal, Daniel Sim, a data scientist at the Government Technology Agency of Singapore’s (GovTech) Data Science Division explains how he and his colleagues used big data analysis to find the root of service disruptions on Singapore’s MRT Circle Line.

I just read Angus Harrison’s aptly named piece on the band and his time with them in Paris.

Along the way, we also get to hangout with the fairly notorious head of Ed Banger records, Pedro Winter aka Busy P, learn a bit about…

Rahul Gupta on Nokia’s announcement of its acquisition by Microsoft.

Jennifer Ehidiamen writes about the Tony Elumelu Foundation’s entrepreneurship programme in an article on Devex Imapact. This is what she suggests the program says about the current state of entrepreneurship in Africa:

1. Interest in the agribusiness is growing;
2. More women are seeing themselves as…

Benjamin Doda is currently raising money for a improved open space access for his fellow residents in Manalapan, New Jersey.

In a LinkedIn article, he describes how small businesses can help to improve their communities by creating urban living labs:

1. Using the opportunity of urban living lab…