Recap

• What is a chart?
  • Bad charts
  • Chart choice
• Workbench
• Maps

Telling stories with data

Video examples

• NZ Population via Figure.NZ
• FT Crunched

Interactive examples

• NYT You Draw It
• NZH You Draw It
• Guardian - How well do you know the NHS?

Breakout

In pairs discuss these:

• What do you think of these approaches?
  • Do you like them?
  • Are there other ways you would prefer to learn about this data?
• Are they journalism?
• Are they news?

NZH Improvements

I probably should have included a median income version as well as an average income version.

Digressions — Why?

All summary statistics hide things

The mean and standard deviation are the same for each of these graphs

Back to Labour vs National

What would inflation adjusted median household income look like?

How would you do that?

• First look on Figure.NZ
• Follow back to Stats NZ
• Stats NZ has two primary data sources
  • NZ.Stat
  • Infoshare
• (At this point you can call StatsNZ)
• Look in the income sections and look for household income

Data tables have overly complicated names like:

Household income by region, household type, and source of household income

This is useful if you want to do something about regions - but often we just want to look for totals.