Aaron Schiff - Freelance data scientist and economist

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State Highway 1 Population – NZ’s population along State Highway 1
Small Towns – Approximate maps of the small towns of Aotearoa
NZ Freight Volumes – An interactive visualisation of estimated freight volumes transported within New Zealand in 2012
Human development indicators – Visualising the UN’s Human Development Indicators dataset

Making a really simple web app in R – Using R to generate static html files to make a simple website
Machine readable data needs to be human usable – Open data is not useful if humans can’t use it
Ten things I learned making maps in R – A few tips I picked up while making choropleth maps
A pattern for analysing large datasets in R – An efficient way of working with data that takes a while to load