Finding New Zealand data

There is a lot of open data available in and about New Zealand

• Here’s a page that list’s some of the key sources
• StatsNZ
  • NZ.Stat
  • InfoShare
  • COVID-19 data portal
  • 2018 Census Summaries
• data.govt.nz - currently 28,607 datasets

So that’s a lot!

• You might quickly find the problem is too much data
• So if you only remember one thing from this course

Figure.NZ’s mission is to get the people of New Zealand using data to thrive.

This includes being very happy to help journalists if you reach out with questions about New Zealand data

• Visual search
• Links to and documentation of original sources
• Clear licensing
• Reusable images
• Data downloads

Figure.NZ

Download just the data you see

If you can only remember two things - remember add /data.csv to Figure.NZ urls

Caveat

Sometimes the data used to create the chart you see is only part of a data set. So don’t use data from /data.csv calculate percentages.