Between value and valuation

About

Components is a media and analytics company that builds technology to make the values expressed in markets intelligible. We are led by a group with a combined background in data science, computer science, journalism and market research.

All of our research is conducted with our own data platform. To speak about working with us, contact mail@components.news.

People

Andrew Thompson

Andrew Thompson is the founder of Components. He has worked as data editor of Fast Company and Ceros and led the team that refactored Uber's knowledge base. He is one of a handful of researchers whose work led to adjustments in a Google algorithm. He lives in New York.

Jules Becker

Jules Becker is a software engineer. His computer science background began in artificial intelligence and has included financial products, language models, and software for builders and architects. He is a musician and lives in New York.

Kyle Paoletta

Kyle Paoletta is the author of American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest and a contributing writer at Columbia Journalism Review. His reporting and criticism regularly appears in Harper's, The Nation, and The Baffler.

Chris Good

Chris Good lives in Chicago. He has worked in market research, community journalism, corporate public relations and arts publishing.

Tiger Dingsun

Tiger Dingsun is a web developer and graphic designer based in NYC. He is also the web producer at Triple Canopy. Other interests include fandom studies, paleo-archaeology, Jungian psychoanalysis, and the poetics of the digital quotidian.