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Review: Vice

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This week I watched Vice, the true story dramatisation about Dick Cheney's rise to power from aid to Donald Rumsfeld during Nixon's White House to Vice President to George W. Bush. The film is directed by Adam McKay who directed The Big Short and has a similiar style of engaging narrative mixed with sometimes unorthodox delivery of information. My favourite of these is the restaurant scene where the main characters choose from the menu on offer which includes enemy combatant, enhanced interrogation, Guantanamo bay and extraordinary rendition.
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Google Page Speed

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Calibre have published an informative article about the changes to the Google search algorithm recently, in particular how page speed and mobile first have become the primary factors looked at by Google's algorithm. The article breaks down the details fo page speed and identified time to interactive as the most important factor in achieving a good page speed score.
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Best Dogs

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Check out the great and informative plot dataviz from Information Is Beautiful. The graphic shows the best breeds of dog and also differentiates between clever breeds and dumb breeds, like the poor Irish Wolfhound.
Data Vis

Despair

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Dutch Data Visualisation specialist Sonja Kuijpers has published a powerful data visualisation which represents the number of people who died by suicide in the Netherlands in 2017.
Data Vis
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