A visual history of the New Zealand parliament
Chris McDowall explains the origins of this epic graph view into our political history.
Chris McDowall
Chris McDowall is an Auckland-based geographer working at Figure.NZ to help people see New Zealand clearly.
How to buy your first house: a deep data dive into those miracle property stories
What can we learn from the spate of reports about young people bucking the odds and purchasing property? Chris McDowall reads them all and crunches the numbers.
878 quakes in 24 hours: how New Zealand shook in the wake of the monster Kaikoura eqnz
Geonet recorded 878 events in the 24 hours after the monster 7.5-magnitude shock, more than 300 of them 4-magnitude or greater. Here Chris McDowall plots the quakes on an animated map.
The surging cost of renting an Auckland house, in one terrifying animation
Rental prices in NZ's largest city continue to escalate, with lower income households hit the hardest. Chris McDowall, who built the stunning Spinoff Unitary Plan maps, has visualised the change.
