BusinessDesk has a fantastic (and rare) for a data journalist in New Zealand. The Herald and BusinessDesk are separate publications, but whoever is in this role will work with me on projects like Budget day visualisations 1/2 careers.nzme.co.nz/jobs/6697721...

The Global Data Barometer - Data Visualization Challenge 2025 is open! We’re inviting you to use the second edition dataset to create powerful stories about data for the public good. Register by July 1 Submission deadline: July 16 Explore the guidelines: globaldatabarometer.org/2025/06/glob...

I'm updating a small app I last looked at in 2019. I wrote it using @svelte.dev v2.15.0 - things have really changed a lot in the svelte ecosystem since then!

New Zealand's new (proposed) electorate boundaries were released this week. MMP means that electorate boundaries don't really impact the outcome of elections, but it's still interesting to how the changes might impact individual MPs.

Don’t read this on the bus you might miss your stop…

This is not a good graph. More on NZ Herald. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/meth-use-... (Paywalled)

I had fun seeing how far an article can go creating a page for the ‘Mr Asia: A forgotten history podcast’. @svelte.dev makes it really easy to export an artist’s vision from Illustrator or similar and adapt it into code. Also have a listen it’s a great podcast! www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mr-asia-p...

🚨 New blog post! 🚨 If you want to learn about: 🎨 Monochrome colour palettes 📊 Designing better black & white visualisations 🛠️ Rethinking single-colour chart design Read this ➡️ nrennie.rbind.io/blog/monochr... #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #RLadies

Here's a fun (paywalled) map looking at the distribution of rainbow communities around New Zealand using the latest census data. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/census-da...

A new day, new datajournalists on my nerdy list. go.bsky.app/KKnngCM Welcome to @joshnicholas.com @meikeeijsberg.bsky.social @vizowl.bsky.social @maxzierer.bsky.social @grasjcj.bsky.social And there is always room for more nerds. So feel free to suggest someone in the comments, even yourself. ;)

I'm happy with how our interactive of every school's NCEA results has evolved. Lots of information is readily available to readers and each school's achievement rate is shown in context. It is incredible, and concerning, how well the new(ish) equity measure predicts outcomes. 1/- #ddj #datavis

Last year 44% more students left New Zealand state schools without NCEA L3 and before they turned 17 than during 2017–19. Read more on NZ Herald here www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/post-covi...

I was shocked to find sparkling new buildings on the earthquake-prone building registry in New Zealand. In two instances, buildings were demolished but were still listed as an active risk until I started asking questions. For BusinessDesk: businessdesk.co.nz/article/mate...

Crowd size estimates from drone footage - @mathematiguy.bsky.social talked to the NZ Herald about his estimates of the crowd size during yesterday's hīkoi in Wellington. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/data-scie...

There's a starter pack with all SPIEGEL data & visual journalists now: go.bsky.app/G1RTn5g 📊👩‍💻👨‍💻

I'm not sure why I have suddenly got so many followers today - but thanks everyone. I don't post very often, but when I do it's generally New Zealand related data journalism content.

A single number generally doesn't do justice to trends in crime stats - and the Police Crime Snapshot and Time and Place reports only contain about 30% of Auckland's reported serious assaults. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

If you have been waiting until the weekend to catch up on Thursday's budget take a look at my budget interactive www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/... And the rest of the Herald's budget coverage www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/budget...

Had fun trying to figure out why 75-79 year olds had the second largest percentage increase in population - was obvious in hindsight. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/migration... Migration drives New Zealand’s largest ever population increase to 5,305,600

The corrections to the NZ election results don’t change the outcome. I wanted to know what would affect the results. It depends... The nearest change this time is if NZF lost 5640 votes but in 2008 Labour only needed 39 more votes to take one on National’s seats.

If you are completely bored of election graphics we have created a baby name chart for you - you can still use it if you love election charts and the history of baby names 😉 www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/ho...

Was digging around polling booth results looking for interesting booths - but this is what I found. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/election-... 'Full check': Electoral Commission reviewing voting results after Herald identifies error

Inflation figures don't include interest costs - they can't - but that means that even as inflation is coming down costs are increasing for many households. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/hou...

If there is the same percentage difference in vote share between election night and specials as in 2017 National lose 3 seats and Labour and the Greens gain one each. The 2020 ratio results in a drop of two for the Nats and an additional seat for Labour. Use our interactive to explore the options.

If you can work in the UK this might just be next year's best data job!

🚨Job alert 🚨 The @data.ft.com team is looking for a political data scientist to join us in London and help take our quantitative coverage of polling and election results to the next level in 2024. Details here: boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

Trying to get in the habit of cross-posting - tweeted this yesterday :) I put together a small interactive to look at how close the election is and see how small changes from polled voting intention could affect the outcome. See it in Audrey Young's article www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Put together a couple of interactive articles to help with NZ election voting: - An interactive overview of party policies www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/election-... - A map showing where you can vote www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/election-...