Chris McDowall is an Auckland-based geographer. He makes maps and data visualisations.
Chris McDowall explains the origins of this epic graph view into our political history.
We hear a lot about the gender gap in wages, but what about other kinds of demographic disparities? Chris McDowall plots out a year in New Zealand salaries.
More than a quarter of those who voted gave their electorate vote to someone from a different party than the one they backed for their party vote. Chris McDowall breaks it down.
Chris McDowall has created an extraordinary interactive data-visualisation which shows the party vote results of every single one of the hundreds of voting places in the 2017 general election. He explains his work here – and explore it below.
Chris McDowall explains the origins of this epic graph view into our political history.
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.
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.
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.
