by Cathryn McLauchlan GROWING up I was never great at math if I’m being perfectly honest. When I reached high school I didn’t even attempt to take any form of Mathematics subject. Conceding that I was simply terrible with numbers, I happily avoided them as much as possible while studying journalism. However it wasn’t …
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Whether you’re looking for data to support your research or you’re digging for story ideas, there’s plenty of public datasets available you can use. The growing availability of online data in Australia is great for transparency, however it is becoming more difficult to find the most up-to-date, accurate and relevant datasets among all the noise. …
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Understanding how much construction has been approved across a city tells a story of its economic growth. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases monthly Building Approvals data so individuals, businesses, economists and more can access these insights for free each month. Its usually released at the end of the month for the month prior, with data by region …
Working with data can be overwhelming when you have a lot of rows and columns. You know there’s something interesting to be uncovered, but how do you find it? Vizall can help you make sense of the numbers. It spots errors and fixes them, shows you interesting stats such as most frequent words used and …
