Branaunmore Sea Stack

Image: Branaunmore Sea Stack, The Cliffs of Moher, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.

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Friday, June 14, 2019

In This Edition:
Charging for work, Feynman's Physics lectures, UK electricity supply, Irish State map, Shopify Commerce report and PWC voice report.

On a trip to Ireland this week I visited the Cliffs of Moher. Since my last visit, the new vistor centre has been built and is quite impressive. Booking online before-hand is a must to secure a free place in the car park and a reduced entry rate. It was funny to see the many tourists ignore the warning signs and hang out over the edge amid huge wind gusts to get a selfie, eek! the photo above is of the Branaumore sea stack, the poorer cousin when it comes to photographed landmarks at the cliffs.

Charging For Your Work

Image: idiallo.com

This is a good story by Ibrahim Diallo about how he quoted $18,000 to build a single HTML page and got away with it, or rather, he quoted for all the time the company took to give him what he needed to build the page.

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Idallio.com
Web Dev
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The Feynman Physics Lectures

Image: Tom Harvey. Copyright © California Institute of Technology

Clatech have made Richard Feynman's lectures in Physics from the 60's available to read online.

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Feynman Lectures
Science
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UK Electricity Supply

Image: interactive.carbonbrief.org

Check out this fantastic interactive dataviz site showing how the UK transformed its energy supply towards renewable energy in the last decade.

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CarbonBrief
Data Vis Environment
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Irish State Map

Image: zero-g.ie

The Zero-G design company in Dublin has created a great and illuminating map of the Irish State, which re-imagines the various state bodies and organisations as island land masses, grouped and positioned based on their allocated budgets and perceived power within Ireland.

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Zero-G
Data Vis
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Shopify's State of Commerce Report

Image: Shopify

Shopify have released a State of Commerce report which presents the results of surveys conducted between April 2018 and 2019 of over 3,800 shopify merchants and 2,600 consumers.

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Shopify
Business Data Vis
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PWC Voice Assistants Report

Image: PWC

PWC have released a report on the current proliferation and uptake of voice assistants and voice recognition technology among consumers. "Usage will increase but consistency must improve for wider adoption".

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PWC
Business Tech
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About Found This Week

Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
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Daryl Feehely

I’m a web consultant, contract web developer, technical project manager & photographer originally from Cork, now based in Liverpool. I offer my clients strategy, planning & technical delivery services, remotely & in person. I also offer freelance CTO services to companies in need of technical bootstrapping or reinvention. If you think I can help you in your business, check out my details on http://darylfeehely.com

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