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    [OC] Most frequent technology pairings found in cutting-edge companies from 12 innovation ‘mini-hubs’

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    2. heresacorrection on

      Lousanne? You need to provide the tools used to create this viz or it will be removed

    3. Illiander on

      > AI & Quantum Computing

      The most “We don’t understand what these words mean but they sound vaugely futuristic” pairing you’ll probably hear for a few years.

    4. urbanruffles on

      ah yes…let’s invest billions in fancy medicine so we can live to 150….assuming, of course, the planet hasn’t melted into a puddle of fire and plastic by then

    6. dannyOreazon1992 on

      all this tells me is that there are fewer functioning brains in the US than in Europe

    7. shamsunil2004 on

      AI + Healthcare is a no-brainer. Blockchain + Smart Cities feels like it has huge potential but also massive implementation hurdles (I mean corrupt governments). AgriTech + Climate Adaptation is just…aspirational at this point

    8. Silly_Masterpiece_54 on

      US hubs leaning toward AI and blockchain kinda fits with VC trends. Meanwhile, Europe’s focus on medtech feels very Horizon Europe-like

    9. syphax on

      This is meant as constructive criticism:

      My reaction is that this is a visualization that looks interesting but is pretty much useless. All sizzle, no steak.

      I have so many questions. Including but not limited to…

      * Why these “mini-hubs” vs. other candidates (Ithaca, NY?)?
      * What’s special about mini-hubs vs the “The GIHI2024 top 20 cities/metropolitan areas overall” mentioned in your source?
      * average number of employees per… mini-hub? per company in these mini-hubs? Is Eindhoven a big mini-hub, or home to bigger companies?
      * What do the heights of the bars represent? Some measure of the strength of each pairing (“tag pair frequency), but… what exactly? Where do these tags come from? And are these grouped by country (as suggested by the flags) or micro-hub?

      The pairings range from “these are very obvious pairings” to “these are word salad”

      This was an interesting attempt, but I come away with way more questions than insights. In fact, I come away with zero useful insights.

    11. PuffyPanda200 on

      So I listen to the podcaster Galen Duke (he does US based election data journalism, he was with 538) and he has a segment called (I think) GD-BD-ND and stands for: good data, bad data, not data.

      With the amount of hand wavey and arbitrariness to this I tend to think that this is just not data.

      Why would one be most interested in combinations of fields (though one could easily say buzz words instead) in only smaller size innovation hubs?

    12. sid_276 on

      With all due respect, this is the definition of “looks pretty but it’s useless”. So many things wrong with it.

    15. loozerr on

      Oh genomics I thought it said genocide and wondered what the hell is going on here

    16. aaffpp on

      Canada. All cities, except Brampton: Timbits and Coffee. Brampton: Samosas and Milk-Tea. (source: Coffee Breaks are Beautiful)

    17. everlasting1der on

      This isn’t an indicator of what to watch, it’s an indicator of hype.