If you land up in the Wellington newsroom there'd more chances to collaborate. Flick me a message you are interested and want to chat about data journalism. I was lucky enough to make the jump from data science to data journalism back in 2017 and I've never regretted it.

I'm not actually certain about this but I believe sometimes the sensors get innudated and report crazy numbers. When I was making river level visualisations for the Auckland floods in 2023 I had to exclude a bunch of rivers where the reported depth was a little higher than Mount Cook.

But if, for example, you think the bit of the Selwyn electorate that has been added to Wigram is more left leaning that the rest of Selwyn you can use the sliders to see how that plays out.

With the blunt assumption that voting preference is uniform across electorates there a four electorates that might have had different outcomes if the new boundaries had been used in the 2023 election.
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Was in 2011 - well before waste water testing was introduced. But the price per gram and point (dose) was higher was similar in 2009 and 2017/18 (without inflation adjustment) and the price has dropped since then.

On current evidence that would be sneaking into correlation with causation territory 🥲

Well forgotten is quick subjective - but I think plenty of people who weren’t alive in the 70s don’t know the story. The podcast hosts also found new details from documents that weren’t available at the time.

I’ve heard a few horror stories over the years - lots of spreadsheets and deadlines are often an unfortunate combination!

It's tempting - not this year - but definitely something to think about for next year.

Nice! I hope they're enjoying it - I had a great time there - in 1994!

This is for 2023 - the leavers data generally gets released in July or August.

Thanks :) the p-value was very small - essentially 0.

You can filter to the see the attainment rates for different demographic groups - were you thinking something beyond that?

Thanks - and thanks for creating the list - it's very helpful.

Thanks! - @kiwifarah.bsky.social is another New Zealand data journalist on here.