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March 19 · Issue #13 · View online
Weekly digest of links shared by the Populate team around civic engagement, data, visualization...
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Google DeepMind: What is it, how it works and should you be scared? | Personal Tech | Techworld
DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman gave a rare insight into the work he and his team are doing within Google during a machine learning conference in London in June 2015.
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Federal Balancing Act: An Interactive Budget Simulation
Decide on the Federal Budget.
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There’s a scientific reason why chocolate chip cookies and milk taste so good together - Quartz
Why do chocolate chip cookies dipped in milk taste so good? Matthew Hartings, a professor of chemistry at American University, told Quartz that it’s partially due to the chemical compounds interacting on our tongues. Chocolate is a combination of cocoa butter (pure fat) and cocoa powder, which wouldn’t ordinarily mix. But, chocolate also contains chemicals called…
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Data journalism matters more now than ever before | Simon Rogers
Here’s an interesting thing: data journalism is the mainstream. Or indeed: Data journalism is just journalism. It’s been threatening to do this ever since I wrote this piece. Now it’s everywhere. If 2014 was the year that saw new outlets develop their own brands of data journalism (think 538, The Upshot, Vox…), and 2015 was the…
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The Economist Videographics - YouTube
Our Videographics and Live Charts offer food for thought on topics from military spending to millennials to football
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