Over the past months, GlobalBeerIndex has continued to evolve — not by adding noise, but by strengthening structure. The most visible step forward is that the GBI Explorer is now publicly live and fully operational. What started as a modelling exercise has become a working reference environment for structured sensory comparison across 120+ beer styles. […]
Over the past months, I’ve been working on GlobalBeerIndex (GBI) as an exploration into structured sensory modelling for beer styles. The aim is simple, but not trivial: to describe and compare beer styles in a consistent way, without relying on ratings, popularity, or subjective scoring. Beer is often discussed in rich but loosely defined language.
The Netherlands is changing rapidly in terms of population and living patterns. But where are facilities such as cafés, restaurants, and supermarkets already well represented, and where is there still room to grow?
To answer this question, we developed an interactive dashboard based on CBS open data. It allows you to compare facilities across provinces, municipalities, districts, and neighborhoods—normalized to facilities per 10,000 inhabitants and complemented by a peer comparison by degree of urbanization (STED). This way, you can instantly identify which areas are under- or over-served.
