Blog posts

Visualising results from the Backyard Ultra World Team Championship 2024

October 25, 2024

I got obsessed with the Backyard Ultra 2024 teams event and made some charts of the results.

Mapping changes in Auckland's youngish adult population: Census 2023 edition

October 15, 2024

Dot-density maps of changes in Auckland's population aged 20-34 between the 2018 and 2023 Censuses.

Problems with SurveyMonkey's A/B test calculator

October 9, 2024

SurveyMonkey's calculator to compare proportions across groups is very confusing.

NZ Treasury changes the discount rate

October 7, 2024

The New Zealand Treasury substantially reduced the discount rate for public sector projects -- what does this mean?

Working from home in the 2023 New Zealand Census

October 4, 2024

What can the latest 2023 New Zealand Census data tell us about working from home?

NZ Census 2023 data released

October 3, 2024

Taking a first look at data from the 2023 New Zealand Census that was released today

Celebrating 10 years in business

October 1, 2024

Today is the 10th anniversary of starting Schiff Consulting. Here's a look back at achievements in that time.

Are young women in New Zealand starting to leave men behind?

September 26, 2024

Comparing socio-economic trends for people in their 20s

Building a Linkedin data visualisation template with Quarto and Typst

September 18, 2024

A detailed walkthrough of how I set up a custom template for Quarto and Typst to create PDF files of data visualisations for sharing on Linkedin.

Visitor arrivals to New Zealand over 100 years

September 17, 2024

A look at how the number of international visitor arrivals to New Zealand has changed over the past 100 years.