How Centuries of Protest Shaped New York City
A new book traces the “citymaking process” of riots and rebellions since the era of Dutch colonization to the present.
Growing the Data Visualization Community with deck.gl v5
deck.gl is a WebGL-powered framework for visual exploratory data analysis of large datasets.
Mike Meru Has $1 Million in Student Loans. How Did That Happen?
Escalating tuition and easy credit have yielded a class of student-loan borrowers with spectacular debt they may never pay back.
These are the 21 most highly-funded tech startups from the last quarter — and most of them you’ve never heard of
In the first quarter of 2018, US venture capital funding across all industries grew 49% from the year before up to $22.1 billion, according to the Goldman Sachs Views from the Valley report, which is based on data from CB Insights.
The Future of Full-Time Jobs in the Age of Freelancers
Currently, freelancers are estimated to account for 34% of the workforce. By 2020, that number is set to reach 43%. Freelancing and gig economy work is often painted as the job of last resort, but people are voting with their feet: freelancing is growing rapidly while 6.6 million traditional jobs remain unfilled, an all-time high.