Here’s the question of the day – What is language? And this is Google’s definition of it. Language defines us as human. As the philosopher Renee Descartes once said, “There’s is no other animal, however perfect and fortunately situated, that can put words together in a manner to convey their thoughts.” All animals communicate, of […]
Category Archives: Technology
Toyota’s fuel-cell gamble
Published in View from the Edge – A monthly column by Lee Han Shih, Founder of the Potato Group, featured in the CompassList newsletter. The Sailor’s Log offers analysis, insights and coverage of noteworthy trends from up-and-coming startup ecosystems. It goes out the first and third Wednesday of every month. Get the CompassList newsletter here. If you believe […]
How to turn boring topics into sexy, interesting content
Published in The Couch Potato – A weekly column of casual kopi chat over ideas on design, tech, education and all things under the sun. To help the average Potato become a smarter spud. When it comes to effectively delivering messages, there’s truth in the saying, “It’s not what you say, but how you say […]
How can AR and VR transform the world?
Published in The Couch Potato – A weekly column of casual kopi chat over ideas on design, tech, education and all things under the sun. To help the average Potato become a smarter spud. The advent of AR and VR – and together, extended reality – has created much hype with their novelty initially. Innovators […]
Data Vis Spotlight: Maps
This post first appeared in Kontinentalist’s newsletter, Notes from the Equator. Kontinentalist, a Potato company, monitors Asia’s latest developments and uses maps to tell compelling stories. A map is one of the data visualisations that needs no introduction. Maps have existed for a long time, and they are now integrated into our daily lives in […]
Coding a Kontinentalist Story
In my eight months of working with Kontinentalist as a front-end web developer, I’ve worked on five hard-coded stories and a handful of auxiliary data vis for other normal scroll stories. This roughly equates to one and a half months of work to produce a hard-coded story from conception to end. For that reason, I’ve […]
