Entries by Will Taylor

#VoteAKL 2016 maps

I had a bit of a play around with mapping the voter return data from the 2016 Auckland local body elections (raw data available here).  I looked at it two ways: What areas had the highest/lowest turnout? (i.e. where is participation high/low) What areas had the highest raw number of votes? (“who elects the mayor”) […]

Auckland Home ownership and income maps

While the map that everyone will be interested in today is the new Auckland Unitary Plan (AUP)….I have been playing around with drawing maps in R.  The maps below use the 2013 census meshblock data set. Given all the discussion around NIMBYism that has surrounded the AUP process, I thought it would be interesting to […]

Incentives: parenting tweet edition

This from @JustinWolfers is in the running for tweet of the year: My 5-year old just warned me that if I don't behave myself the consequence will be “No economics for a week.” I'm cleaning up my act. — Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) March 3, 2015