Treksit.com is an extrememly addictive game based on graph theory. Given a set of increasingly complex graphs, the aim is to reposition the nodes so that no edges are overlapping. Happy Friday!
The Human Genome Nomenclature Committee has changed the names of humane genes and proteins because the symbols were being automatically converted to dates in Microsoft Excel. Symbols such as SEPT1 and MARCH1 have been changed to SEPTIN1 and MARCHF1. The tyranny of Excel's rule continues unabated :-p
Carphonewarehouse put together a lovely looking website that compares cities based on a number of attributes such as monthly rent, internet speed, and quality of life, in an attempt to show the best cities for freelancers.
Data visualisation heavy weight Information Is Beautiful (David McCandless) has published a datapack of Coronavirus visualisations with links to the underlying data. The site includes this handy reference diagram (above) showing the risk profile of various activities. (P.S. Wear a mask)
Amnesty International has analysed 500 videos and 125 incidents across 40 states and districts to produce an important map of recent police violence in America.
Spanish newspaper El País published a fascinating analysis of three indoor Covid outbreaks and looks at how they could have been avoided. The article suggests mitigation techniques in the relation to outbreaks in a call centre in South Korea and in a restaurant and on a bus in China.
The annual Stack Overflow Developer survey has been released. Poor old VBA is still top of the pile as the most dreaded programming languages :-) Thoughtworks also released the latest version of their technology radar, which is a great resource in seeing which techniques, tools, platforms and languages that are gaining traction with the tech landscape.
The Guardian published an interesting interactive visualisation article describing R0, the basic reproduction number, which is the metric used to measure the contagiousness of a pathogen. Reducing the R0 of Covid-19 is funadamental in preventing exponential infections of the virus and will determine how lockdown restrictions can be lifted.
