All blog posts

November 1, 2022

Drivers of NZ population changes

Taking a look at the impacts of internal and international migration on NZ population.

October 31, 2022

Happy Birthday!

A statistical reason to celebrate getting older.

October 24, 2022

A brief guide to automated text analysis for research & evaluation

A practical guide to using automated sentiment analysis, topic detection, and summarisation in research and evaluation projects.

October 7, 2022

Mapping changes in the population of youngish adults: 2022 remake

Mapping changes in Auckland's population aged 20 to 34.

September 29, 2022

Using automated text analysis in an evaluation project

Improving data analysis by using natural language processing.

September 22, 2022

Comparing input versus output price changes for New Zealand industries

Some data visualisations to explore producer input and output price index data.

May 16, 2022

One month with R in VS Code

A few more tweaks for using R in VS Code.

March 29, 2022

Automating downloads from Infoshare with R

R code with RSelenium to help automate downloads of time-series data from StatsNZ's Infoshare website.

March 27, 2022

Visualising forecast uncertainty

Experimenting with how to show the uncertainty associated with an economic forecast.