I regularly cover the political polls with a view to providing readers with an objective overview of what the different pollsters have found. We have a database of all the national polls going back several years that I use to provide context to the stories. This allows me to focus…
Interactive: Budget Explorer
The Australian Financial Review’s Budget Explorer was designed to help make sense of the data deluge that accompanies every federal budget. The interactive features five modules tackling a different major element of the budget. It was produced with the fine data visualisation experts from Small Multiples. Major Initiatives and Savings…
Federal politics: Nielsen polling
The Coalition would easily win an election held now with a swing of up to seven per cent, according to the latest Nielsen Poll. The Coalition leads on a two party preferred basis with 57 per cent (up one point) versus Labor on 43 per cent (down one point). Labor’s…
Bananas, sugar growers worst hit by Tropical Cyclone Yasi
TROPICAL Cyclone Yasi has caused widespread damage and personal loss to Far North Queensland but the overall economic impact for the year is expected to be limited, experts say. While the insurance industry says it is still too early to have an accurate picture of full impact of Yasi, Commonwealth…
Interactive economic charts
I’ve been working on a series of interactive economic charts for the business section of news.com.au. Here is a screen shot of the interactive dollar chart. You can zoom in and out and highlight key events. We also have interactive charts for the unemployment rate, interest rates, inflation and GDP.