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.