How to put on your designer's hat when crafting map experiences
summary
A practical workflow that starts with the ABS census tablebuilder to pull country-of-birth by LGA, moves through analysis in Datawrapper and QGIS, then to sketching, iterative styling and a shareable mock-up. Key findings: metro areas dominate residence data, a surprising concentration of New Zealand-born workers in the Pilbara mining region and heavy clustering around Brisbane/Gold Coast (counts vs proportions matter). Notes missing: no comparable NZ-to-Australia dataset found. Design choices include centroid dot styling and the viridis color scale for clear hierarchy.
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chapters (29)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:40Who is Andrea
- 1:15Design principles
- 2:20Design workflow
- 3:02Story idea
- 3:54Research
- 4:25Levels
- 4:57Table Builder
- 6:11Data Wrapper
- 6:45Charts
- 7:04Style
- 7:32New Zealand
- 8:14Tools for analysis
- 8:39Crafting
- 9:19Researching
- 9:49Familiar to you
- 10:21Shareability
- 11:36Sketching
- 12:30Build
- 13:11Edge cases
- 13:28Communication
- 14:42Visualization
- 15:57Colour
- 18:33Color
- 19:50Inspiration
- 20:30Summary
- 20:47Frank Lloyd Wright
- 21:25Kiwis
- 24:01Visualizations
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