Category: Data
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COVID19 and International Students: ABS Overseas Travel Statistics: Total Movement by Visa Group
Randomly, I was looking for some arrival and departure data for international students in Australia, seeking to test the theory that there had not been any mass scale departures of overseas students since Australia declared a COVID19 a pandemic. Somewhat conincidentally, Professor Andrew Norton tweeted this chart literally hours earlier. ABS international student arrivals data…
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A new take on international education student enrolment data by region: Experimenting with Tableau mapping
The Department of Education, Skills and Employment provide the international education sector in Australia with a large amount of very useful data on international students studying within our borders. Much of it is provided in a number of formats – from pivot tables made available through Austrade’s Market Information Package to a range of data…
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Americans at Peace and War | #MakeOverMonday 2020 Week 6
Two weeks in a row now that I’ve managed to get something done for MakeOverMonday. This week’s challenge had us rearranging the visuals of this Washington Post article by Philip Bump titled “Nearly a quarter of Americans have never experienced the U.S. in peace time“. I’d been procrastinating all week, checking out many great vizzes…
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Leave our Bond alone? | #MakeOverMonday 2020 Week 5
So I finally managed to grab some free time to contribute something to the MakeOverMonday social data project. I’ve been a fan for many years and have often wanted to contribute – and finally I’ve done something that I’m relatively happy with. This is my data story analysing potential attitudes to changes in the James…
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Tableau tricks: Adding colour to geomaps by continent or region
Tableau is a great tool for data visualisation. One major selling point of the product is its excellent mapping tools which make building visualisation fun and interpreting data a hell of a lot easier than in a flat table. Recently, I was attempting to replicate a neat visualisation I saw on the Guardian’s data blog.…