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Essays on New Zealand open data, plus product news and worked examples.
Install the eolas R package, pull CPI and the OCR, plot with ggplot2, grab an SA2 map. Same catalogue as Python — tibbles and sf, not JSON wrestling.
A short worked example: pull NZ CPI and the Official Cash Rate through eolas, join on date, plot. The kind of thing that used to mean two portals and a spreadsheet.
NZGOAL looks great on paper. Whether any one dataset is actually reusable still depends on the agency, the entity type, and whether anyone applied a licence. Here's the map from reading ~60 copyright pages.
I got tired of re-downloading the same Stats NZ tables and fixing scrapers when agencies redesigned their sites. So I built one place for clean NZ official data — with the licence on every table.
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