https://david.frigge.nz/ A personal website of data exploration. Distill Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 David Friggens https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2019-12-auckland2 How many regions does it take to match Auckland's population? Here's an interactive to explore the combinations. https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2019-12-auckland2 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 David Friggens https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2019-11-boty New Zealand birds and their human puppets have been fighting it out for the coveted Bird of the Year title for the 15th time. Here we animate the STV voting using R's `gganimate` package. https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2019-11-boty Sat, 16 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 David Friggens https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2019-11-stv-results I've made a better go at animating STV election results this time around. Here's a brief announcement/overview. https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2019-11-stv-results Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 David Friggens https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2019-10-rugby-world-cup Let's look at the changes in country rankings between each Rugby World Cup using a Sankey / alluvial diagram. https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2019-10-rugby-world-cup Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 David Friggens https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2019-10-democracy-in-action I don't know what I'm more excited about - new election results to pore over, or my first follow-up post! In 2016 I looked at voter turnout in the New Zealand local body elections. Now three years later, almost to the day, let's have a look again and see how things have turned out this year. Is it Democracy In Action or Democracy Inaction? https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2019-10-democracy-in-action Sun, 13 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 David Friggens https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2019-08-auckland I made a map at work comparing Auckland and other New Zealand cities. Let's talk through building something similar, in R. https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2019-08-auckland Sat, 31 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 David Friggens https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2018-11-leader-age _The Economist_ used some graphs to show "Leaders of Western economies are getting younger, even as their populations age". Naturally my first question was "what about New Zealand?" https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2018-11-leader-age Sun, 25 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 David Friggens https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2018-11-radixical-blogging The blog is dead. Long live the blog! The blog went in to unintentional hiatus as I had enough of handling things manually with RMarkdown. I've converted it to use the new radix package, and written some notes about the process. https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2018-11-radixical-blogging Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 David Friggens https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2017-01-anyone-who-had-a-heart Visualising card game results. Less exciting than it sounds. https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2017-01-anyone-who-had-a-heart Sun, 29 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 David Friggens https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2016-12-earthquake-excuses Some visualisation experiments using earthquake data. Facet zooming in ggplot and maps with Plotly. (Why didn't I make these separate posts?) https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2016-12-earthquake-excuses Wed, 28 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 David Friggens https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2016-12-election-transparency Some reflections on trying to find out information about local government elections. https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2016-12-election-transparency Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 David Friggens https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2016-11-earthquake-depth Some visualisations of the depths of the recent New Zealand earthquakes. https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2016-11-earthquake-depth Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 David Friggens https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2016-11-simple-to-vote Animations to visualise New Zealand local body elections using STV (Single Transferable Vote). https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2016-11-simple-to-vote Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 David Friggens https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2016-10-whither-local-democracy If you live in New Zealand you would have been hard pressed not to notice that we had local body elections recently. It seems that all anyone can talk about is the turnout. Is it all bad news? https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2016-10-whither-local-democracy Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000 David Friggens https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2016-08-the-luminaries Do the the parts of Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries incrementally reduce by half? (TL;DR - no. There is a method, but it's not that.) https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2016-08-the-luminaries Fri, 26 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 David Friggens https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2016-08-unfamiliar-maps Many towns and cities share the same name. Some are less well known than others. Let's take a look. https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2016-08-unfamiliar-maps Sun, 14 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 David Friggens https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2016-08-birthday-eve Some time ago I had a thought - if you had a daughter and she was born on Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve, would you be tempted to name her Eve? https://david.frigge.nz/posts/2016-08-birthday-eve Tue, 09 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000