David Hood
@thoughtfulnz.bsky.social
I like collating data,
and getting thoughts in the brain.
All for Public data, Aotearoa New Zealand, and informed communities. #openData #NewZealand #Aotearoa #rstats. He/him.
He tangata tiriti ahau
and getting thoughts in the brain.
All for Public data, Aotearoa New Zealand, and informed communities. #openData #NewZealand #Aotearoa #rstats. He/him.
He tangata tiriti ahau
As Lilith did a cool thing here, my take is my own (by extracting my own timeline) autobiography summary poem based on picking among the commonest terms in my posts. In this post showing the #rstats code, the next showing the selected rearrangement (code in alt text).
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 AM
As Lilith did a cool thing here, my take is my own (by extracting my own timeline) autobiography summary poem based on picking among the commonest terms in my posts. In this post showing the #rstats code, the next showing the selected rearrangement (code in alt text).
Over here it looks like influenza is also historically high (at least in the Auckland based hospital admissions). And a lot of A/H3 is nationwide in the community, but not detected in SARI Auckland hospitalisations as much.
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Over here it looks like influenza is also historically high (at least in the Auckland based hospital admissions). And a lot of A/H3 is nationwide in the community, but not detected in SARI Auckland hospitalisations as much.
So, Christmas pork (ham) and chicken
(I checked the food price index for the trends, having seen some headline numbers about increases)
(I checked the food price index for the trends, having seen some headline numbers about increases)
November 28, 2025 at 3:51 AM
So, Christmas pork (ham) and chicken
(I checked the food price index for the trends, having seen some headline numbers about increases)
(I checked the food price index for the trends, having seen some headline numbers about increases)
While covid per capita in wastewater did not get lower than the all time low (since covid spread nationwide) in mid-October, Christmas is looking a lot more like a 2024 prevalence than any earlier year.
November 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
While covid per capita in wastewater did not get lower than the all time low (since covid spread nationwide) in mid-October, Christmas is looking a lot more like a 2024 prevalence than any earlier year.
Having sped read a bunch of pdf's I know where- It is from the literature review section of past research on Maths in background docs, NOT THE STRATEGY. The subtitle of that document is literally "An overview of the literature". Could just as easily have quoted the structured pedagogies section.
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Having sped read a bunch of pdf's I know where- It is from the literature review section of past research on Maths in background docs, NOT THE STRATEGY. The subtitle of that document is literally "An overview of the literature". Could just as easily have quoted the structured pedagogies section.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 28: Black.
International test match locations and results for the Black Ferns in 2025. Done in #rstats, the Pacific centred world2 map from the maps package, and ggrepel for the labels.
International test match locations and results for the Black Ferns in 2025. Done in #rstats, the Pacific centred world2 map from the maps package, and ggrepel for the labels.
November 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
#30DayMapChallenge Day 28: Black.
International test match locations and results for the Black Ferns in 2025. Done in #rstats, the Pacific centred world2 map from the maps package, and ggrepel for the labels.
International test match locations and results for the Black Ferns in 2025. Done in #rstats, the Pacific centred world2 map from the maps package, and ggrepel for the labels.
A quick bit of lunchtime data collation
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
A quick bit of lunchtime data collation
#30DayMapChallenge Day 27: Boundaries
The geographic boundaries of the city of Ōtepoti/Dunedin. A little bigger than the US State of Rhode Island, a little smaller than Cornwall in the United Kingdom.
The geographic boundaries of the city of Ōtepoti/Dunedin. A little bigger than the US State of Rhode Island, a little smaller than Cornwall in the United Kingdom.
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
#30DayMapChallenge Day 27: Boundaries
The geographic boundaries of the city of Ōtepoti/Dunedin. A little bigger than the US State of Rhode Island, a little smaller than Cornwall in the United Kingdom.
The geographic boundaries of the city of Ōtepoti/Dunedin. A little bigger than the US State of Rhode Island, a little smaller than Cornwall in the United Kingdom.
The panel size is around 20,000 people at the moment, which is still enough to broadly say "that is a pretty low rate of Fever and Cough for NZ"
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The panel size is around 20,000 people at the moment, which is still enough to broadly say "that is a pretty low rate of Fever and Cough for NZ"
Those with object permanence going back 7 years to July/August 2018 might recall the Southern/Molyneux visit, Phil Goff's reaction, and the online reaction to Phil Goff's reaction. Smaller liberalish societies like us and Ireland are imaginary country rhetorical devices to the farrightosphere
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Those with object permanence going back 7 years to July/August 2018 might recall the Southern/Molyneux visit, Phil Goff's reaction, and the online reaction to Phil Goff's reaction. Smaller liberalish societies like us and Ireland are imaginary country rhetorical devices to the farrightosphere
As an aside form making a Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu map, those of us who were watching After School in the early 80s (so working age folk) were getting a lot more bilingual and biculturalism than suits the present government's culture war
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
As an aside form making a Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu map, those of us who were watching After School in the early 80s (so working age folk) were getting a lot more bilingual and biculturalism than suits the present government's culture war
I am putting out #30DayMapChallenge Day 24 - Places and theirnames - early, as the next few days may be complicated.
The delicate art of fitting Map on a map (made in Inkscape)
The delicate art of fitting Map on a map (made in Inkscape)
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I am putting out #30DayMapChallenge Day 24 - Places and theirnames - early, as the next few days may be complicated.
The delicate art of fitting Map on a map (made in Inkscape)
The delicate art of fitting Map on a map (made in Inkscape)
Papers Past is a source of TV program listings
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Papers Past is a source of TV program listings
OTOH, at the right time of year (Southern Hemisphere Winter) you can find times when the 5 non-Australia or Antartica continents are almost entirely in day and the Pacific is in night, as a hemisphere boundary.
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
OTOH, at the right time of year (Southern Hemisphere Winter) you can find times when the 5 non-Australia or Antartica continents are almost entirely in day and the Pacific is in night, as a hemisphere boundary.
Well, as it happens...
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Well, as it happens...
#30DayMapChallenge Day 20: Water. I deliberately chose to use area for average rainfall, as the up to 10 times difference between sites swamped most other scales I tried
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
#30DayMapChallenge Day 20: Water. I deliberately chose to use area for average rainfall, as the up to 10 times difference between sites swamped most other scales I tried
Infant mortality rates were around 10 times higher a century ago, about 5 times higher pre many modern vaccines, but in many respects that makes death a less remarkable thing to discuss.
November 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Infant mortality rates were around 10 times higher a century ago, about 5 times higher pre many modern vaccines, but in many respects that makes death a less remarkable thing to discuss.
this was all I saw on the 1893 outbreak (I then hunted down separate population figures.
November 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
this was all I saw on the 1893 outbreak (I then hunted down separate population figures.
Who wraps gladwrap press n seal around their keyboard? Who had a major coffee spill with no consequences? This guy.
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Who wraps gladwrap press n seal around their keyboard? Who had a major coffee spill with no consequences? This guy.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 18 - Out of this World.
Sun-centric route map of the Mars Escapade mission (made in Inkscape)
Sun-centric route map of the Mars Escapade mission (made in Inkscape)
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
#30DayMapChallenge Day 18 - Out of this World.
Sun-centric route map of the Mars Escapade mission (made in Inkscape)
Sun-centric route map of the Mars Escapade mission (made in Inkscape)
Comparing it to IBM Plex Sans which I have been using the last month or so, I like the slightly more spaced Lexend Deca though when using Lexend I am inclined to step down the headings from my normal semibold (with other fonts) to medium (yay for library(systemfonts)). To remake a recent graph-
November 17, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Comparing it to IBM Plex Sans which I have been using the last month or so, I like the slightly more spaced Lexend Deca though when using Lexend I am inclined to step down the headings from my normal semibold (with other fonts) to medium (yay for library(systemfonts)). To remake a recent graph-
Ohh. Atkinson can be complicated with Macrons/ Tohutō (I used it for years on graphs where I could) but it looks like Lexend handles key letters much better. Normally, I force extra spacing in Word in deeply buried paragraph style settings, but a font like this has broader general potential.
November 17, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Ohh. Atkinson can be complicated with Macrons/ Tohutō (I used it for years on graphs where I could) but it looks like Lexend handles key letters much better. Normally, I force extra spacing in Word in deeply buried paragraph style settings, but a font like this has broader general potential.
They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
November 17, 2025 at 5:09 AM
They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
You might want to ask yourself, if you are thinking about Sweden "in -ve excess" compared to the 2017-19 average, is how often is a year below the mortality of the 3-5 years previous & by how much. On a descending trend, a -ve excess compared to a flat line can still be worse than historical trends.
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
You might want to ask yourself, if you are thinking about Sweden "in -ve excess" compared to the 2017-19 average, is how often is a year below the mortality of the 3-5 years previous & by how much. On a descending trend, a -ve excess compared to a flat line can still be worse than historical trends.