About Industry Math
Industry Math is a data-documentary project, a YouTube channel and companion site, that tells the rise, fall, and displacement of technologies by the numbers. Based in Kuala Lumpur, written for a global, English-speaking audience.
Adam Yong, creator and author.
Adam Yong is a technical founder with 20+ years in SEO and application engineering and a Computer Science background. He builds software products: BrandPeek, Agility Writer, and LocusPilot.
Industry Math is the project he runs alongside the software work — the one where the brief is "explain how this industry rose and why it fell, with real numbers". The episodes report the arc. The articles add what a builder of 20+ years makes of it.
His personal site is adam-seo.com. The sister channel Founder Math covers founder and company stories on the same "by the numbers" promise.
Every number traces to a named source.
The methodology is the brand. Every number on screen and on the page is logged in a source ledger with a named source before it is published. No invented statistics, ever.
Disputed figures — where two reputable sources publish different numbers for the same thing — are labelled as estimates with their source. The lower estimate, the higher estimate, and which one we are using.
Charts come from the same data series shown in the episodes. If a chart appears in an article, the underlying series is named in the Sources section at the end. The price-per-unit-over-decades chart in particular is the signature: a log-scale curve drawn from filings, archived price tables, and inflation-adjusted to a single base year stated on the chart.
The articles add one thing the episodes do not: the author's own observations and opinions, clearly his own, grounded in the sourced numbers. Those passages are marked as opinion. The reported data is everything else.
Reserved space. Adam decides at first publish what, if anything, goes here.
The mission, in two sentences.
Take heavy industry data most people would never read — shipment series, filings, price tables spanning decades — and turn it into stories that are interesting and easy to understand, without dumbing the numbers down.
Add what a builder of 20+ years makes of the data. Clearly marked, grounded in the sourced numbers, and never sold as fact.