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October 25, 2024

Visualising results from the Backyard Ultra World Team Championship 2024

I got obsessed with the Backyard Ultra 2024 teams event and made some charts of the results.

October 15, 2024

Mapping changes in Auckland's youngish adult population: Census 2023 edition

Dot-density maps of changes in Auckland's population aged 20-34 between the 2018 and 2023 Censuses.

October 9, 2024

Problems with SurveyMonkey's A/B test calculator

SurveyMonkey's calculator to compare proportions across groups is very confusing.

October 7, 2024

NZ Treasury changes the discount rate

The New Zealand Treasury substantially reduced the discount rate for public sector projects -- what does this mean?

October 4, 2024

Working from home in the 2023 New Zealand Census

What can the latest 2023 New Zealand Census data tell us about working from home?

October 3, 2024

NZ Census 2023 data released

Taking a first look at data from the 2023 New Zealand Census that was released today

October 1, 2024

Celebrating 10 years in business

Today is the 10th anniversary of starting Schiff Consulting. Here's a look back at achievements in that time.

September 26, 2024

Are young women in New Zealand starting to leave men behind?

Comparing socio-economic trends for people in their 20s

September 18, 2024

Building a Linkedin data visualisation template with Quarto and Typst

A detailed walkthrough of how I set up a custom template for Quarto and Typst to create PDF files of data visualisations for sharing on Linkedin.

September 17, 2024

Visitor arrivals to New Zealand over 100 years

A look at how the number of international visitor arrivals to New Zealand has changed over the past 100 years.