Free resources

The following resources, data tools, and other experiments were created by Schiff Consulting. Unless otherwise stated, these can be freely re-used under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.

Impact valuation factors for CBA and SROI

An overview of impact valuation factors in the NZ Treasury CBAx model that can be used to evaluate social interventions using CBA or SROI.

Data and information for economic evaluation of social interventions

A brief overview of the data and information needed for robust and credible economic 'return on investment' analysis of a social intervention.

NZ residential building consents explorer

Visualisations of trends in building consents issued for new residential dwellings in New Zealand.

NZ price index tracker

Visualisations of New Zealand price index changes beyond headline inflation.

Introduction to automated text analysis for research and evaluation

A practical overview of natural language processing techniques that can be used to support research and evaluation projects.

Small towns of Aotearoa

A data visualisation experiment that shows approximate maps of the small towns of Aotearoa using land parcels data.