In mainland China, men outnumber women by almost 32 million. That’s a group of people larger than Australia and New Zealand combined, who will never find a wife (presuming that’s what they’re looking for). This…
Too much Yang, not enough Yin
Browsing Category Ideas
Natural Language Classification of Development Applications Reveals a Divided Sydney
Sydney has experienced a number of housing bubbles since the early 2000s. Fuelled by a variety of factors, the booms and busts have made housing affordability hit record lows. Problems with construction quality also emerged…
Showing media bias with radar charts – the Israel Folau case
Radar charts are much maligned in the world of data vis. Every other explanation of their workings comes with a disclaimer explaining why “you probably want to use a bar chart”. Their problems include: The…
Visualising Australian Postcodes
We’ve made two maps to help you understand how Australia’s postcode system works. Breaking apart the postcode This is an adaptation of Ben Fry’s zipdecode using Australian data. The first number of a postcode usually…
Will you outlive your representatives in parliament?
Data sources ABS Life Tables Senators and Members by Date of Birth
The average face of Labor, Liberal and National party in the Australian Parliament
F1 & M2: NATIONALF2 & M1: LIBERALF3 & M3: LABOR Methodology Photos from Australian Parliament House Image generated using Face Morpher
How the 2018 Queensland bushfire spread
More than 100 fires burned across the state of Queensland in late November/early December 2018. The fires were caused by unprecedented alignment of climate change, heatwave conditions and catastrophic fire danger. Emergency services described it…
Is Australia getting less rain?
The ongoing drought in eastern Australia has been devastating to the farmers. I wanted to know if the shortage of rain reflects the general trend of the past decades. Monthly rainfall data from all BOM weather stations across…
Australian Politicians, Birthdays, Zodiac Signs, and Tableau Charts!
Just having a bit of fun with Parliament of Australia data and Tableau. Birthdays of all members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate were plotted against year and party affiliation. There are…
The People of Wentworth By-Election
The 2018 Wentworth by-election is taking place on Saturday 20 October. Who are the people living in the electorate of Wentworth? If you remember the Census Explorer we built for SBS, there’s a nifty feature that…
