The Last of Us 2 : A closer look at user scores
Are first time reviewers bringing the score down?
Posted on June 21, 2020
Naughty Dog is one of the few developers who have been able to appease critics and users alike with games such as the Uncharted series and The Last of Us. But with the recent release of The Last of Us 2, that seemed to come to an end with critics...
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XBox One in Numbers: Charting 78 Months of journey
A Metacritic Adventure
Posted on May 22, 2020
2020-05-23-XBox_in_Numbers.utf8 Few year back in 2017, I analyzed the state of different consoles this gen when Wii U was also in the mix(Check here Xbox One in Numbers). As we are nearing a new generation for Playstation and Xbox families, I think it is a good time to relook at...
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Mobile subscription by technologies
5G to accelerate within 2-3 years
Posted on January 2, 2020
This is the first visualization of year 2020 where I intend to be more active in my blog. The visualization is about mobile subscription trend over the years. Although 4G/LTE is yet to peak, we expect to see huge adoption of 5G within 2-3 years as forecasted by Ericsson. The...
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Wireless mobile technology launch over the years
Following the trail as the world enters 5G
Posted on December 14, 2019
As the World slowly ventures into 5G era, I think this is a good time to trace the trail of wireless cellular technology adoption by countries over the years. Hence, this visualization charting the adoption of 3G,4G and 5G. Few Notes: * As some of my peers was misinterpreting the...
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Wireless mobile technology adoption over the years
Following the trail as the world enters 5G
Posted on December 12, 2019
As the World slowly ventures into 5G era, I think this is a good time to trace the trail of wireless cellular technology adoption by countries over the years. Hence, this visualization charting the adoption of 3G,4G and 5G. Few Notes: * By 3G, I picked only 3GPP standard of...
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Visualizing Bangladesh #5
Labor force participation by gender over the years
Posted on December 5, 2019
This is the fifth entry in my series of Visualizing Bangladesh. This time an animated chart of labor participation rate by male and female over the years for people aged 15-64 years . Female participation rate vastly improved (+11 pp in just last decade) and the gap is closing in...
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Visualizing Bangladesh #4
Population Mix over the Years
Posted on November 28, 2019
This is the fourth entry in my series of Visualizing Bangladesh. This time an animated chart of population mix over the years. Bangladesh will be primed with youth working population between 2020 to 2030. It is hammer time for economic progress.  Data Source: World Bank...
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Visualizing Bangladesh #3
Mobile Telecom Subscriber by Year
Posted on November 14, 2019
This is the third entry in my series of Visualizing Bangladesh. This time an animated chart of mobile telecom subscriber trend with key events from 2001 onwards.  Mobile telephony in Bangladesh actually started in 1989 but due to subscriber data unavailability, I have to start from...
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Resolution Wars: October 2019 Update
Business as usual : HD declining fast with FHD gaining faster
Posted on October 24, 2019
2019-10-25_Phone_Resolution.utf8 On 2017, I began analyzing mobile device releases and the change of resolution over the years. This is the 4th iteration of that. You can check the last one here - (Resolution Wars: Q4 2018 Update) . It’s been almost 9 months since that article and I think its...
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Visualizing Bangladesh #02
GDP Distribution by Sector
Posted on February 9, 2019
It has been almost a year and a half since I did my entry on Visualizing Bangladesh. This is the second entry highlighting GDP distribution by sector at current prices for 2017-18. The source data can be found here in Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. The values are all in BDT...
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Resolution Wars: Q4 2018 Update
Business as usual : HD slows down with FHD gaining fast
Posted on February 8, 2019
On 2017, I began analyzing mobile device releases and the change of resolution over the years. This is the 3rd iteration of that. You can check the last one here - (Resolution Wars: Q1 2018 Update) . It’s been almost 9 months since that article and I think its about...
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Resolution Wars: Q1 2018 Update
HD slows down with FHD and Quad HD gaining momemntum
Posted on May 9, 2018
Last year, I did an article (Resolution Wars: Device Resolution over Time) on resolution changes in newly releases mobile devices over the years. It’s been six months since that article and I think its about time we revisit the current status of that trend. About Source Data We will be...
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4G launched in Bangladesh
Benefits and to-dos to avail the service
Posted on February 24, 2018
4G has been launched in Bangladesh on 19-Feb'2018 by four operators - Grameenphone, Robi, Banglalink and state-owned Teletalk . Though everyone is raving about higher speed(throughput), 4G is not about brute speed only. It is also about user experience. So, lets check how the experience fares. The test has been...
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Visualizing Bangladesh #01
Household Density by Thana
Posted on October 27, 2017
While searching for data related to Bangladesh, I stumbled upon lots of obstacles - shoddy unresponsive websites, badly formatted tables nightmarishly embedded in pdfs and little to no visualization. To allay this, we are starting this new series with the aim to visualize Bangladesh- one graph at a time. This...
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Mobile OS over the years
Death of Windows Mobile leaves consumers with two choices
Posted on October 26, 2017
After a month long hiatus, I’m back and in coming days we are planning to focus on data visualization. To warm up, let’s quick-check OS distribution in mobile devices over the years. Mobile OS over the years : Static Plot Uptill 2008, the market was super fragmented with Nokia’s myriad...
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PC Game Releases this week (1-7 September)
Tyranny expansion and Rainbow Six Siege add-on incoming
Posted on August 30, 2017
September is near and 7 games are releasing in PC in 1st week of September (1-7). No biggie or AAA title to report but an expansion of Obsidian’s well received title “Tyranny” is on the way. Check out the games and their trailers below(If you are in smaller device, click...
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Resolution Wars: Device Resolution over Time
FHD is becoming norm but the journey beyond may be slower
Posted on August 25, 2017
Last weekend, I did an article(Phone Height over Time) on phone heights and their change over time. This week, I will try to focus on another major metric for telecommunication user devices- Resolution. Additionally, I’d try to highlight challenges one may face to reach desired result from any...
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Phone Height in Time (August'17 update)
Larger Chart for Clarity
Posted on August 18, 2017
Scatter Diagram plotting Device Heights over the Years Hover over any point to get the device name, brand, height and release month Zoom by holding the left mouse button and selecting an area Pan by holding Shift and moving left mouse button You can view the original article with analysis...
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Phone Height over Time
A data-driven look at cellphone evolution over years
Posted on August 18, 2017
A few days back in a discussion someone pointed that phone heights have started to shrink again after continuous increase from last 10 odd years. But he could not back up that with data. For few days, I was searching for a reason to deep dive into large data pool...
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Self-taught AI beats Pro Gamers
The end of human superiority may be nigh
Posted on August 11, 2017
In an exhibition match yesterday (11-August'17) in The International 2017, an AI developed by the team at [OpenAI](https://openai.com) has defeated [Dendi](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/Dendi) , a champion pro-gamer in 1v1 match. In the best of 3 encounter, the AI won comprehensively by 2-0. It has also been revealed that the bot remains undefeated...
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XBox One in Numbers: PS4 had 33% (58 in number) more great releases than XBox One
A Metacritic Adventure
Posted on July 13, 2017
Last week, I analyzed the reign of PS4 (Check here PS4 in Numbers) and many of you wanted to see similar for XBox One. So, here we are. Source Data The data has been collected through days of webscraping to ensure that my endeavour does not result in spamming requests...
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