Visualizations Automating NZ Wireless Map with Google Cloud Run Almost a year ago, I promised a post detailing how I process NZ Wireless Map's data to keep it fresh. Here it is: Recap: The ProblemNZ Wireless Map is a map of the point-to-point wireless links in New Zealand, using data pulled from the NZ spectrum regulator, who host a
Visualizations Visualising Sydney/NSW Rents NSW Government Fair Trading holds bonds for all residential tenancies in NSW, and every month they publish Excel spreadsheets of weekly rent, broken down by postcode, bedrooms, property type (house/flat/townhouse), and lodgement date. The data is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. I converted and imported this data into
Visualizations My 8-year Attempt to Automate NZ Wireless Map The almost-decade-long process I went through trying, and failing, to automate updating the data shown on NZ Wireless Map.
Visualizations NSW Executor Fees Visualisation or: bargain-hunting, even beyond the grave When setting up a will, you must nominate an executor to distribute your assets. It's a nontrivial task with some legal liability, so it seems most common to nominate an organization to do it for you. There are a variety of organizations that'll execute
Visualizations A Visualisation of Your Last.FM History Today, I'm launching Scatter.FM, a new visualisation that shows Last.fm users how their listening habits change over time. If you've been a Last.fm user for any length of time, you can use Scatter.FM to visualise your entire listening history. Oh yeah... I remember that time when
Visualizations A New Map of New Zealand's Wireless Networks Mt Te Aroha Antenna Mast (Photo Credit: Joel Oughton) I've just launched a new visualisation: a map of New Zealand's terrestrial Radio/Wireless network. It's a map that draws lines showing the links between antennae like the one shown at the right. You might have seen these towers on top
Visualizations Visualising the New Zealand Government Budget I never used to care about the government budget. Every year, I'd see a storm of Budget stories on the news, and I wouldn't understand any of the numbers they were throwing about. $50 million cuts to education. $2 billion for fibre broadband. $200 million increases for student loans. I
