What’s New in Your Dashboards?

Welcome Back to the 2025 Academic Year! At Education Geographics, we’re excited to help you make 2025 a year of data-driven decisions and impactful governance. Our award-winning development team, led by Reg Kernke, has just rolled out exciting updates to your dashboards, empowering your leadership teams with better insights and benchmarks. What’s New in Your

2GB’s John Stanley & John Black 30th Dec, 2024

Tags : Australia Votes Federal Election 2025

I was interviewed by 2GB’s John Stanley this morning about my current predictions for the next federal election due before May 17, which currently puts Peter Dutton ahead in the race to win a majority of seats in the House of Representatives and hence form a Coalition Government with Peter Dutton as Prime Minister. Here’s

Forthcoming Federal Elections Current State of Play

Tags : Election 2025

I had a story in the New Year’s edition of the AFR on the current state of play across individual seats at the forthcoming Federal Election. Here’s the link to the story, behind the AFR paywall: 🔗 It looks like Albo might need that beach house in 2025  https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/it-looks-like-albo-might-need-that-beach-house-in-2025-20241227-p5l0ss. There’s a lot that can happen

It’s Election Time Again!

I had a chat with Laura Tingle on the ABC 7:30 Report on Monday night about the possible range of outcomes for the political parties and independents at the national elections, due by May 17 next year. We also canvassed some of the issues driving voters when they make their voting decision. Fellow election tragics

Webinar: Saul Eslake on US Presidential Election Impact on Australian Economy

Tags : Federal Election 2025 Saul Eslake US Election 2024

We are pleased to welcome back Australia’s living economic legend Saul Eslake to our Education Geographics Webinars on November 15, when Saul will focus on the impact of the US Presidential Election on the Australian economy in the lead-up to the Australian General Election due by May 2025. Whoever wins, the outcome of the United

John Stanley & John Black 28th October, 2024

Tags : Qld Election 2024

I was interviewed by 2GB’s John Stanley this week, following my articles in the Australian Financial Review and my social media post on last weekend’s Queensland State election.   The interview with John was longer than usual and gave us a chance to deal a bit more in-depth with the political implications of the State election

Queensland vote a pivotal moment for Greens

Tags : greens party Qld Election 2024

I wrote a Queensland State election preview for the Australian Financial Review which appeared at the weekend and the link is here, albeit behind the AFR paywall.   https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/queensland-vote-a-pivotal-moment-for-greens-20241024-p5kkyl The story is headlined:  Queensland vote a pivotal moment for Greens, as it analyses the electoral fortunes of the Greens since the party rose from the ashes

John Stanley & John Black 8th July, 2024

Tags : Elections

Last weekend The Australian Financial Review published my short review of the role of religion and ethnicity in Australian politics since the 1960s. My article was written in the context of the rise of the Muslim vote in the UK election last week and the implications of this outcome for the Australian General election, scheduled

John Stanley & John Black 17th June, 2024

Tags : Elections

Political Opinion polls can be pretty unreliable at times, but lately they’ve all been moving in the same direction, which is down for the satisfaction for Anthony Albanese as PM, down for the ALP primary vote, down for the Two Party Preferred Labor vote and down for the job  the Albanese Govt is doing on

HGS Win InfoSol 2024 Award

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Health Geographics has won the prestigious InfoSol 2024 Award for the Best Business Dashboard 2024, for its Private Health Care Australia Dash App. Paul Grill, the CEO of Infosol personally congratulated HGS and its CEO Dr Jeanine McMullan on the achievement which has previously been won by major international marketing companies such as Salesforce. Paul

John Stanley and John Black – 26th March, 2024

Tags : Demographics Elections

I caught up with John Stanley from 2GB/4BC on Tuesday night for an informal chat about an election review article I’d written for the Australian Financial Review on Monday. Here is a  .pdf link to that page. John and I talked about demographic and political events and themes over the timeline since the May 21,

What happened on the weekend to rev up the week ahead.

There’s an hilarious cartoon in the Australian Financial Review today, with a story from me below it. My op ed piece runs through the elections and by-elections we’ve had since the last Federal election on May 21 2022. There’s some good news in there for the Government I think, from the evidence and explanations of

Dunkley By-Election

I’ve written a profile of the by-election on Saturday in Dunkley for the Australian Financial Review, putting it in the context of our 2022 National Election Personal Vote Profiles and our profiles in Aston and Fadden.    See AFR story here: 🔗 https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/dunkley-exposes-further-shift-away-from-major-parties-20240303-p5f9dw The three individual seat profiles use ADS modelling of personal votes to

Australian Female Participation Rates and Independent School Market share.

Tags : Demographics

🎓I put on my Education Geographics hat today to write an opinion piece for the Australian Financial Review for Tuesday’s paper and you’ll find it now in the online edition on this link (behind the paywall): 🔗  View this story in the AFR The story discusses the choices confronting all parents when they choose a

John Stanley and John Black – 29th January, 2024

Tags : demographic elections

Had a chat with John Stanley of 2GB/4BC this week, at the tail end of yet another hot and humid Queensland summer of cyclones, heatwaves and  floods. I recall making the suggestion to John that if the Labor PM was planning on fighting another election over the impact of global warming, then it would be

The odds still point to another close Labor win in 2025.

Tags : demographic elections

My editor has okayed me posting the original story on spatial electoral strategy from the Australian Financial Review’s special New Year’s Edition and here it is. It looks as though 2024 will be a rerun of 2023 in many respects, albeit with signs of cresting and then stabilising for population growth, prices and interest rates.

John Stanley and John Black – 8th November

Tags : demographic elections

I had the pleasure of meeting with John Stanley of 2GB/4BC for a captivating conversation about Australian and international demographics. We didn’t shy away from the pressing current events either, delving into the intersection of demographics and the ever-evolving world around us. I hope you find it informative.   

The Quest for Unclaimed Ground

Tags : election strategy

I have an election strategy piece in the Australian Financial Review special New Year’s Edition for 2024. For AFR subscribers, the link can be found here: https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/odds-for-2024-point-to-another-close-labor-win-in-2025-20231212-p5eqv2 The thrust of the AFR article is that both leaders of the two major parties seem to be talking to the converted demographics which already dominate their own

Great Opportunity

Tags : ESRI esri mapping software spatial statistics

GREAT OPPORTUNITY Are you a student who is studying Geography, GIS, or Spatial Statistics or a mature-aged person seeking to re-enter the workforce?  We are looking to train a small team of men and women to use Esri Mapping Software which not only assists us with our mapping business but equips you for your future

Bruised Labor Back To Basics

Tags : voice referendum 2023 yes no vote

I had an opinion piece in the Financial Review today on the demographics driving the Voice Yes and No votes. The online edition has a lot of the charts which you might find interesting. Here’s the link to my online op ed (behind the AFR paywall): 🔗 https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/demographics-explain-how-we-voted-on-saturday-20231012-p5ebuu Our chief Mapper and head of Health Geographics

Tongariro Lodge

Tags : #flyfishing Flyfishing NZ nz flyfishing Tongariro

You couldn’t get a nicer picture on a chocolate box, folks. Here’s the adjoining villa at Tongariro Lodge this morning as we were starting to gear up for the day’s fishing. The mighty Tongariro River is about 20 metres away. Fly fishing awaits, for the first time here in 4 years, thanks to Covid lockdowns.

An Omen Perhaps

Tags : #flyfishing lake taupo nz flyfishiing Tongariro

Great omen on the metal dividing fence at Auckland Airport. For the uninitiated, the Royal Wolf is a world famous dry fly for fly-fishing tragic, like your humble writer.

Travelling Man

Tags : #flyfishing nz flyfishing Taupo Tongariro

Phones off folks. We’re in the air, heading to Taupo for a week’s fly fishing on the famous Tongariro run. And Air New Zealand have been fantastic. Such a contrast to the nightmare of travelling with our former national carrier in recent years. We were travelling economy and the staff kept offering to help, the

Good to go 👍

Tags : #flyfishing Flyfishing NZ

I can tell New Zealand Customs that, in all honesty, I definitely packed this bag myself. Not quite a triumph of three dimensional spatial optimisation.  

Kids’ Packing List

After a week working on combined SQL and AI data and text modelling, I decided to go low tech for the kids’ packing list for our Kiwi trip.

Angling for a share

The kids and I are getting our fair share of the pie before packing for our trip to NZ next week. Apparently, I’m fact finding, as well as fish finding, as my AFR editor is angling for a hook on a NZ election story. I’m in party mode already, as you can probably tell.

Off to Tongariro

Guess who is taking the family for a fly fishing trip to the mighty Tongariro? 🎣 Our first trip to Kiwi in four years, thanks to Covid. Packing the gear, as I type and hoping the waders haven’t shrunk. More to come …

EGS Wins InfoSol 2023 Award

Education Geographics has won the prestigious InfoSol 2023 Award for the Most Valuable Dashboard, for its Australian School App which is now driving record enrolment growth for school leadership teams across 130 Australian Non-government schools. Paul Grill, the CEO of Infosol personally congratulated EGS and its CEO and dashboard designer Reg Kernke on the achievement

Aspirational Left voters rise again in NSW State Election

Above is a snip of our ADS/Esri online map showing in shades of red the larger estimated Two Party Preferred swings to Labor in the March 25 NSW election at the close of counting on election night. 🔗 https://arcg.is/0rqGez My preliminary analysis of the March 25 NSW State election vote and swings appears in today’s

New Face of Politics

Read the full background stories about the Aspirational Left Families now reshaping Australia Three key decisions that adults in Australia are making about their own lives, and their families, revolve around choosing who to vote for in an election, staying healthy and giving their kids the best education they can. Sarah Ho, who moved with

Rise of the Aspirational Left voters reshaping Australia

Here’s a snip of an ADS/ESRI online map showing dark red shading for the three federal seats of Brisbane, Griffith and Ryan. All three seats were won by the Greens from the Liberals or from Labor in 2022, despite big Two Party Preferred (2PP) swings and votes to the ALP. https://arcg.is/0G4iL1 These seats are coloured

Political Pitfalls Ahead

I have a little opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review’s New Year Special Edition on some of the political and economic issues awaiting the attention of the Commonwealth Government during 2023 and AFR subscribers can find it here: https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/albo-looks-a-shoo-in-but-a-lot-could-go-wrong-in-2023-20221227-p5c8we The story uncovers some unexpected Covid impacts for 2023 and beyond for population growth, the

Tax cut targets voted Labor into power

I got a great run in the Australian Financial Review on Wednesday this week on the need for a fair dinkum progressive economic reform package from the new Government, to pay for rising costs in Aged Care, Health, Defence and the NDIS, something that all income groups in Australia could support. For those with an

What if the PM ended the climate wars for good?

If Labor’s 2030 carbon emissions target is blocked by the Greens in the Senate, most Canberra Observers would expect Anthony Albanese to crab walk away. But what could happen in a double dissolution if he called their bluff, to end the Climate Wars started by the Greens in 2009? 🔗  Read More… 📷AFR

Klahova Lake – Spatsizi

Beautiful final day with no. 1 son at Klahoya Lake today. We parked the float tubes for a camp fire lunch by the lake. Unbeatable #Spatsizi   No. 1 son in float tube on Lake Klahoya today. The stone flies were landing on the tube, by way of a hint on fly choice #Spatsizi Our

Grayling Hole – Spatsizi

We’re all off to the Grayling Hole #Spatsizi today. Woo hoo! Spot the Bald Eagle on the nest in top of the broken tree #Spatsizi My little girl getting a lesson on fly selection from Master Guide Ray Collingwood at the Grayling Hole today #Spatsizi Lunch around the camp fire at the Grayling Hole today

Time to catch (and release) some unwary trout.

Day whatever of our week dawns #Spatsizi and the pilots are already fuelling their floatplanes to take us out to catch (and release) some unwary trout. Hope springs eternal in the breast of this old trout hunter. Ray Collingwood our master guide, is taking the young-uns out fishing today. Here he’s getting to know them

Today we’re mountain climbing behind Lake Ella

In bear country, I like a guide who packs heat. Today we’re mountain climbing behind Lake Ella. All packed and ready to fly to the lake. Talk later. At the top of our hill climb today. Spot the float planes at the bottom of the shot. It was quite a hike #Spatsizi   Tough day

Early to bed for this little black duck.

Heading home from the Firesteel today #Spatsizi. Early to bed for this little black duck. Our guide Ray Collingwood was clearly exhausted by a hectic morning on the Firesteel #Spatsizi A bloke caught a few rainbows, had a nice lunch. Deserved a break. Nice backdrop. The Black Family spent the day on the famous dry

Nature Putting On A Show

Flying up front in the Cessna 185 and getting a goat’s eye view of the ranges en route to the Spatsizi plateau. Timeless beauty of nature putting on a show.  

Twighlight Soccer Match

We had an afternoon to spare in beautiful downturn Smithers and paused, en route to the off licence, for this stunning shot of a twilight soccer match. Qld doesn’t have the snowy backdrop, but it could have twilight sport with daylight saving.

We made it to Smithers!

Hey Big Guy! We made it to Smithers! Cheery welcome from on old furry friend in the airport foyer. And from Reg Collingwood #Spatsizi

We’re on our way Spatsizi

A menu, a wine list, a backdrop of beautiful Vancouver harbour…aaahh … we’re finally off on Air Canada to #Spatsizi

Off to Spatsizi

Tags : #spatsizi

We’re off on Air Canada to #Spatsizi finally, after 2.5 years of covid. No dramas at Sydney today if you’re 3 hours plus early. As the signs says, we can relax (touch wood).

2022 Federal Election Swing Map

The big winners and losers in the 2022 Election can be seen in our online interactive ADS 2022 Election Map. The five big players in 2022 were the traditional majors: the ALP and the Coalition, but also the minor parties, like the Greens, the Teals and the Others (including One Nation and the UAP). The

2022 Federal Election Top Income Quartile Map

Tags : Australia Votes Election 2022

If you want to know which federal seats are most likely to swing strongly to the Teal candidates at the Federal election on May 21, check out the 🔗Map below. The map shows  the percentage of top income quartile persons in 2022 Federal seats in darker shades of teal and is modelled by ADS from

Federal Election Profiles 2022

Tags : Australia Votes Election 2022

Monday 20th June, 2022 Party Machines Conking Out by John Black – AFR – Editorial and Opinion  To Read click link 🔗 Financial Review, Monday, June 20, 2022, pages from 36 to 37 -1.pdf 2022 Federal Election Swing Map The big winners and losers in the 2022 Election can be seen in our online interactive

Key Swing Indicator Map for 2022 Federal Election

Tags : Federal Election 2022

If you want to know which federal seats were more likely to show swings to the Opposition at the start of this election campaign, then the Esri map in this link isn’t a bad place to start.  Link 🔗  2022 FEDERAL ELECTION KEY INDICATORS (arcgis.com) The online Esri map uses the latest Australian Electoral Commission

Political Voices: Past, Present and Future

Tags : Demographics Federal Election Voices Candidates

Profiling of the Voices 2019 demographics by Australian Development Strategies shows that grassroots campaigns by Voices candidates against Liberals in 2022 – led by professional women – could be even more devastating for Labor MPs if turned against them in 2025. This means that the Federal election of 2022 is not so much a contest

‘I really like our maps … they’re great fun!’

Tags : Dr Jeanine McMullan ESRI

Our EGS Spatial Analyst and Senior Mapper Dr Jeanine McMullan has just recorded a new video. In the video, headed The Power of the Esri Map Module, Jeanine conveys her sense of excitement at being able to explore innovative new map layers of small-scale data which she can superimpose on EGS catchment maps, so schools

Covid Impacts For School Planners

Tags : covid impact

Using available data from late 2021, the Education Geographics team calculated post-Covid spatial estimates from 2020 to 2031 on total population, pre-schoolers and school-aged children. Our preliminary EGS population modelling indicates that the big winners from Covid impacts on total Australian population growth have been the four SA4 ABS statistical regions making up the state

School Leaders: No time for complacency

In late 2021, Australia appears headed for a strong economic recovery, but underlying structural problems mean this is no time for complacency among school leaders about future demand for Non-Government school places in 2022 and beyond. As outlined in the Australian Financial Review today (December 2, 2021) Economics Editor John Kehoe warns the current publicly-funded

Tales of Fly Fishing, Foraging and Fungi

Tags : #flyfishing

On October 27, 2020, the Australian Government announced fully-vaccinated Australians could travel overseas without first having to seek permission from the Department of Home Affairs. The next practical hurdle for overseas travel will be reciprocal quarantine-free arrivals in other countries, via vaccinated-only travel lanes, with Singapore apparently now head of the queue for Australians. Hopefully,

Allan Shaw, School Whisperer – Farewell to the best job in the world

Leading a school is the best job in the world, bringing together professional staff and parents to build a community around children and young people. But occasionally you have some of the worst days imaginable. It is difficult to be physically confronted by a student who you know has hurt one of their own parents

Vacination Map Update as at September 13, 2021

Tags : covid australia covidau

The Australian Department of Health is now publishing regular updates showing vaccination rates as a percentage of those 15 years and above, presented by Australian Bureau of Statistics SA3s. In the public interest, the CEO of Health Geographics Dr Jeanine McMullan has mapped, via the following link, the distribution of those Australian 15 years and

Profile of Australian Regional Vaccination Rates, as at August 28, 2021

Tags : covid australia Covid19au

By John Black, Chairman of ADS So many readers enjoyed the online Covid Vax maps from Health Geographics CEO Dr Jeanine McMullan at https://arcg.is/1DeX1H0 that we decided to publish a short descriptive profile of the map data, with some relevant comments for those apparently in charge of the roll out. Introduction. Those shown in the

Vaccination Maps

Tags : covid australia covid19

Vaccination Maps In the public interest, the CEO of Health Geographics Dr Jeanine McMullan has mapped via the following link, the distribution of those 15 and above with one jab, two jabs and one jab minus two jabs. It was felt that those with one jab, awaiting a second jab, were more likely to represent

Lockdown Daydreaming

Tags : #flyfishing

During the long months of overlapping Covid lockdowns across all Australian states and the international lockdown to international travel, which is now stretching into years, one of the pleasures we freshwater fly fishermen living in the sub tropics miss the most is the opportunity to travel to some of the more beautiful places on the

What’s The Impact Of Covid On Education?

Tags : COVID-19

🎙 Steve Austin interviews John Black, Founder of Education Geographics.   John discusses with Steve the role of aspirational parents and a stronger labour market in driving the long-term growth of Non-Government schools. The discussion covers the medium-term impact on Non-Government school enrolments of the Covid lockdowns and the Government Stimulus. Also covered is the

Big Data Improves with Age

Tags : COVID-19 covid19australia covid19impact ESRI

When it comes to their new Weekly Payroll Jobs and Wages series, the ABS this week agreed with our ADS post of October 6, 2020: Newer isn’t always better (reproduced below.) With their latest payroll data release this week, the ABS announced it would extend the time between the final payroll period and the release

Rubbery Jobs Figures

I had a little piece in The Australian today on some of the modelling and mapping work we’ve been doing recently at Education Geographics, mostly for schools. Australian subscribers can find the link here: https://tinyurl.com/283vk8cy Distinguished Australian Economist Saul Eslake estimates that closing our international borders to tourists and international students is costing us about

Looking Beyond Covid – Spatially

Tags : 2021 EGS Covid Ready App covid impact ESRI

Australia is predicted to lose a million persons in the next few years, when compared to pre-Covid estimates. These losses are likely to be highest in suburbs near universities which had previously enjoyed strong population growth, due to recent large intakes of foreign students and very high levels of net overseas migration (NOM). Education Geographics

Looking Beyond Covid

Tags : 2021 EGS Covid Ready App covid impact covid jobs ESRI

Looking back to the dark days of the pandemic in mid-2020, we were able to tell our Principals which families and streets within their catchment needed support during job lock downs. We then charted the jobs recovery by suburbs so school Business Managers could track the recovery in their local economies. But that was the

We Told You So..

Tags : covid impact covid jobs ESRI JobMaker

JobMaker misses the real target – written by John Black, CEO of Education Geographics, November 17, 2020 Today’s ABS Single Touch Payroll data confirms that JobMaker has come too late to help younger workers displaced by Covid job lockdowns and it is now missing the real target – older workers in retirement and tourist regions.

What’s in an Age?

Tags : covid impact covid jobs ESRI

Covid Jobs Update from John Black, CEO of Education Geographics, October 12, 2020 Some economists, trade unions and the Labor Opposition say the Federal Government’s JobMaker Budget proposal which subsidises wages only for eligible workers less than 35 years old should be open to eligible workers of any age. They argue that the current policy

Newer Isn’t Always Better

Tags : COVID-19 covid19 impact covid19australia ESRI

Covid Jobs update from John Black, CEO of Education Geographics, October 6, 2020. A week or so back we provided a profile of how the broader Australian stereotypes were faring under Covid jobs lockdowns and today we’re urging a bit of caution when it comes to rushing to judgement on the latest payroll stats –

Watching The Watchers

Tags : corona covid19 Covid19au covid19australia

Covid Jobs update from John Black, CEO of Education Geographics, September 23, 2020. So which groups and regions have been losing jobs under the Covid-19 job lockdowns? Not necessarily who you’d have thought, as it turns out. And what impact is losing your job likely to have on your vote? Frankly, the polls seem to

National implications of Eden-Monaro by-election

The Eden-Monaro by-election was held on July 4 and won by Labor’s Kristy McBain, despite a small 2PP swing to the Liberal candidate Fiona Kotvojs. Notwithstanding the small net swing, the range of swings for and against the ALP were 25 percent, which indicated that there was a considerable range of political views about each

Jobs Recovery Was Underway In May Following Initial Hit In March/April

Tags : COVID-19 covid19 impact Covid19au ESRI

The recovery in many jobs was well under way in May. It’s been most pronounced in those hit first in March/April, working in hospitality, young home buyers, young casual workers also studying at TAFE and this is all to the good. The downturn however continued in May among farming and rural communities, especially fishing (think

Eden-Monaro by-election 2020

By JOHN BLACK, Founder of ADS The Eden-Monaro by-election will be held on July 4. With a week to go, Labor’s Kristy McBain is the bookies’ favourite on $1.70 to win, with published robo-polls giving her 53 percent of the two-party preferred (2PP) vote. Despite trailing in the robo-polls and with Sportsbet paying $2.25, I

Impact on Australian Employment by COVID-19

Tags : covid impact COVID-19 Covid19au covidaustralia ESRI

We trace the jobs impact of the Covid-19 labour market shutdown in a news article and a linked online story map published in The Australian today. The story outlines the evidence that the jobs downturn impacts announced by the Prime Minister in late March were sudden and deep and that since then, there have already

Mapping the impact of Covid downturn

Tags : covid impact COVID-19 Covid19au covidaustralia ESRI

A co-operative venture between Australian Development Strategies, Health Geographics and Education Geographics has set out to regularly monitor, profile and map big data on jobs and wages from 10,000,000 Australians during the Covid recession. The jobs data is now being collected weekly via the Tax Office one touch payroll system and published fortnightly by the

Link to Covid 19 Map Published in the The Australian

Tags : COVID-19 Covid19au covidaustralia ESRI

A demographic profile of Covid-19 begins to emerge from the chaos of the first wave of tests. Dear Colleagues, this is our second update on Covid-19, based on the data we’ve been able to assemble so far, compiled from spatial profiles of LGA testing results in New South Wales and Victoria. More states providing this

COVID-19 and the Impact of the jobs market on Non-Government school enrolments for 2021

Tags : COVID-19 ESRI impact on job market School Enrolments

Dear Colleagues,  due to the changing environment and our response to COVID-19, I will be posting a series of updates on the current research being undertaken by Education Geographics, which may assist Australian Non-Government schools with their 2021 planning. You are welcome to distribute these updates to your school boards and risk assessment committees and

GIS in the Classroom

A Conversation with Ali Pressel & Kyle Tredinnick In October 2019, Teacher Advisory Council members Ali Pressel and Kyle Tredinnick hosted a breakout session titled “StoryMaps: Building a GeoHabit” at National Geographic’s Education Summit. ArcGIS StoryMaps is a system that allows users to tell digital stories with text, interactive maps, imagery, and more. The two high school teachers

What Generation Z Wants from Work, Where

Tags : ESRI esri mapping generation z

Written by Helen Thompson. A new survey of business and engineering students and their employer preferences offers vital insights on the next wave of the global labor force. By assessing the survey data country by country, corporate leaders can divine trends that give them a competitive edge in recruiting the best talent in locations around

Mapping The World’s Islands

Tags : ESRI esri mapping USGS

BY MARK ALTAWEEL There are over 300,000 islands in the world and most of these are poorly documented or generally unknown. A new United States Geological Survey (USGS) and Esri project has now mapped 340,691 islands of the Earth’s islands and created a GIS dataset that is publicly available. World Islands GIS Data As Charles Darwin

The Trouble with Chocolate

Tags : chocolate ESRI esri mapping

Story by Steven Mufson | Photos by Salwan Georges A decade after Mars and other chocolate makers vowed to stop rampant deforestation, the problem has gotten worse ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. — Mars Inc., maker of M&M’s, Milky Way and other stalwarts of the nation’s Halloween candy bag, vowed in 2009 to switch entirely to sustainable cocoa to combat deforestation, a major

New Historical Map of Arlington Shows What County Looked Like 100 Years Ago

Tags : arlington ESRI esri mapping

A new historical map of Arlington allows users to explore what the county looked like 100 years ago. The digital map depicts a mix of new and old pictures, showing the buildings that were standing in Arlington’s neighborhoods in the 1920s. By clicking pinpoints on a county map, users can check out the homes and businesses that

Air Pollution Kills as Many People as Cigarettes

Tags : air pollution

By Neha Pathak, MD Editor’s note: This story was updated Oct. 25, 2019 with a new analysis of air quality data by the Associated Press. Oct. 8, 2019 — When she turned 62 in 2012, Latifa Moosajee and her husband decided to downsize from their home in small-town Georgia. They moved into a brand-new townhouse in

Enrolment projections – an art or a science?

While staff costs drive upwards of 75 percent of a school budget, your student enrolment numbers drive just about 100 percent of everything in the budget. In 2016/17 the average total recurrent income per full time equivalent independent school student across Australia exceeded $20,000. [1] With a national average enrolment of 525 students per school, a

HOW DATA-DRIVEN JOHN DEERE WINS THE MARKET

Written by: Marianna Kantor, Frits van der Schaaf Article snapshot: Using AI-based predictive analysis, John Deere helps its dealers spot growth opportunities in markets around the world. As some companies pull ahead, others fall behind. It’s the essence of competition—and increasingly, data separates the winners from the laggards. Giants like Amazon, Facebook, and Google have propelled

SAVING ‘HALF OF EARTH’ TO SAVE HUMANITY

On the occasion of the Half Earth Day, a look at what E.O. Wilson Foundation is doing to save the global biodiversity, and how organizations like Esri are contributing to the cause. It’s not easy to assess the extent of damage that will be caused by natural calamities in the future. According to a new

SPATSIZI FISHING TRIP 2019 – JOHN & JACK BLACK

Tags : Spatsizi Fishing Trip

Recreational Research on the local trout at Spatsizi Wilderness Lodge. Wow! A double rainbow crowns a wet and cold Brisbane CBD this morning as Jack & I head off for a week of fly-fishing in northern Canada #Spatsizi. It was Jack’s turn for the adventure of a lifetime with his old man … which would

ELECTION ANALYSIS 2019

Tags : Election 2019 Election Analysis 2019 Federal Election 2019

Here’s a fantastic Esri map done by Australian Development Strategies and Education Geographics Senior Mapper Dr Jeanine McMullan. It’s online, completely interactive, public and you can email it to your fellow election tragics. You can blow it up, reduce it, drag it around or select an address and see how it rated on each layer.

LABOR DIGS A HOLE WITH MINERS

Tags : Election 2019 Federal Election 2019

Hello again, political tragics. As we proceed with our 2019 profiling, the longer-term damage Labor has done to itself with working class men just keeps getting uglier. The chart here tracks the declining profile of miners for the ALP since we first profiled national elections back in 1966. In 1966 the Labor Party and Labour

SHIFTING DEMOGRAPHIC TECTONICS

Tags : ALP and Coalition Votes and Swings Election 2019 Federal Election 2019

Hi again, election tragics. We’re currently sifting through the statistical entrails of Saturday’s election, looking for key demographic characteristics of the ALP and Coalition votes and swings. Peeling back the layers to find the underlying linkages between demographics and votes is time consuming and we’re also a bit busy working in the real world at

THE RELIGIOUS RUDD AND THE GREY VOTERS

Tags : Election 2019 Federal Election 2019

Hi there again, election tragics. Sorry I’m late with this short article but I had to ice the cupcakes for our school election day fundraising stall. No, seriously, I did. And I had to stop the five year old eating all the chocolate sprinkles. This is a quick note as I have to drop off

STEREOTYPES AND VOTING

Tags : National Election 2019 Stereotypes and Voting

Hi there, election tragics. Here’s some data in Excel form for you to play with, in the lead up to election day and afterwards. It’s in Excel form, so you can copy it, rank the seats, compare them with the vote and do your own sums with them on election night re the swings. We

THE BALLARD OF POP AND NAN

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Every ANZAC Day I sit down with my kids and explain to them what their Great Grandfather did in the first World War. Some of it sinks in and that’s all you can ask, really. I’m lucky this ANZAC Day in that last September The Australian published a piece from me about my Pop and

USING SCIENCE TO FIND THE FAITHFUL

Tags : Episcopal Church Finding the Faithful

by Jeffrey Peters – serves as director of business development for Esri, playing a key role in strategic planning and corporate leadership. The Reverend Kammy Young has seen the empty pews at Sunday morning service. She has read the surveys that show membership in decline. Once-thriving congregations now depend on part-time volunteers to keep their

APPS FROM MAPS USING LOCATION INTELLIGENCE IS A WHOLE NEW WORLD

Tags : Apps from Maps ESRI GSI

by Richard Harris in iOS Technically a map is defined as a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc. As soon as we view a map, we inherently start turning it into information by analyzing its contents and finding patterns, assessing trends, and making decisions about what we are

THE GEOSPATIAL CLOUD: FAST INSIGHTS INTO BIG DATA

Tags : ESRI geospatial cloud platforms

Article written By Jack Dangermond Integrating the power of location intelligence across an organization Geospatial cloud platforms, computing power and geographic information system (GIS) software give businesses the ability to analyze massive storehouses of information. The results often reveal new data patterns and stimulate innovative ways to increase success through an understanding of location intelligence.

WOULD YOU LIKE A PIE SCORE WITH THAT?

Tags : Education Geographics Interactive School Dashboards Interactive School Maps

Education tends to be a pretty staid, if not conservative, sector, but the underlying analysis and associated data presentation available for the education market is moving very fast. By way of example, at Education Geographics (EGS) we’re now starting our third year of producing online and interactive school dashboards and maps, and we are already heading

COMPETITION AT THE COALFACE

Tags : Independent School Enrolments school fees

Last year I presented some school stats from our national research dataset to a meeting of Victorian Bursars. In one chart, shown below, I ranked Australian Independent enrolments by neighbourhood, according to the average P-12 fees shown by the Household Expenditure Survey, and I ranked the Independent enrolments by school, using the average P-12 fees

SES FUNDING AND POSSIBLE WINNERS AND LOSERS

Tags : Longman By-Election SES Funding

The Commonwealth Government has recently adopted changes in Federal funding for Non-Government schools. These changes remove the spatial weighting for Occupation and Education from the old Howard-era SES scores and instead rely on data linkages to provide a direct measure of matched Personal Income Tax (PIT) for parents and guardians. A higher PIT means higher

LONGMAN BY-ELECTION 2018

Tags : Longman By-Election 2018

The ADS team has prepared an exhaustive profile of by-election swings in Bennelong, New England, Longman and Mayo. A full report of the swings and their implications for the 2019 election appears in the Weekend Australian. Below is a link to the maps of the swings and the associated demographic drivers for Longman. Click away

RAISE THE SCARLET STANDARD HIGH

Tags : AFR Higher Education conference

29 August 2018 AFR Higher Education Conference “Raise the Scarlet Standard High” by Glyn Davis – Vice-Chancellor, the University of Melbourne Thank you Shadow Minister. My thanks to everyone for this nomination and award, and for those generous tributes.  To be valued by peers is the most important recognition possible, and I am deeply grateful. In

Divining votes all about swings and roundabouts at by-elections

Tags : Longman By-Election

Provided your humble correspondent is not eaten by a grizzly bear next week while trout-hunting in the wilds of northwest Canada, he will be back in time to help our team sift through the demographics of Super Saturday. We will be looking for demographically driven swings across the booths in Longman and Braddon that are

DIGITAL DISRUPTION VS WEALTH EFFECT

Tags : Education Geographics School Enrolments

From 2008 to 2017, half the increases in Independent enrolments have been in the bottom fee quartile of schools by student numbers. Three quarters of the increases have been within the bottom two fee quartiles of schools by student numbers. However, around 2014, this pattern of growth changed and from 2014 to 2017, the growth

MEETING WITH JACK D – ESRI

Tags : EducationGeographics Esri Conference San Diego 2018 Jack Dangermond John Black

Jeanine and I are soaking up the latest GIS, Stats, AR developments at the Esri User Conference 2018 in San Diego with 18,000 other participants. EGS are development partners with Esri in Australia. We had a short meeting today with Jack D, the international President of Esri who is keenly interested in teaching kids about

2017 EDUCATION STATS ROUND UP

Tags : 2017 EDUCATION STATS ROUND UP Education Geographics Education Geographics Research Independent School Enrolments

Here is a summary of slides presented in late 2017 to Principals, Vice Principals, Business Managers and Marketers. Data is sourced from the five yearly Census results, the annual ABS school census, My School, ABS Labour Market releases, Digital Finance Analytics and Education Geographics Research. These slides show The characteristics of suburbs where each sector

NEW ENGLAND AND BENNELONG BY-ELECTIONS

Tags : Bennelong By Elections New England and Bennelong by-elections New England By Elections

See for yourself in our Esri online map how local demographics fed into the results in New England and Bennelong by-elections and the Same Sex Marriage plebiscite. Click on the link to the map below. It will open with a default map of the Bennelong estimated 2PP swing to the Liberals, with the dark blue

THE ORIGINAL ONE NATION PROFILE

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Back in 1998 the major parties were under pressure from One Nation, particularly in the State of Queensland, where the fledgling party scored well amongst the older, rural, Australian born, less well educated and those with low-income, blue collar jobs. Fast forward to 2011 and the major parties are again under pressure with Green and

OWEN RIVER LODGE HIGHLIGHTS 2015/16

Tags : Flyfishing NZ Owen River Fishing Lodge NZ Owen River Lodge OWEN RIVER LODGE HIGHLIGHTS 2015/16 Owen River Lodge South Island NZ Recreational Research

Running a fishing lodge can be a complex thing. There are so many variables to take into account, without doubt, the weather has a significant impact on the trout fishery and therefore the fishing. In our early season the weather cooperated brilliantly. November & December saw clear rivers, sunny days and little wind. The results

CLERKS REPLACE TRADIES AS DOMINANT ALP BLOC

Tags : Shifting Demographic Tectonics

One in four women work as professionals. Their support for Labor candidates steadily increased from 1980 under Coalition Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and by 2004, this support had levelled off to split 50/50 between Labor and the Coalition. However, the inner-urban professional seats – such as Melbourne Ports and Brisbane – swung to Coalition Leader

MIDDLE CLASS JOBS HOLLOWING OUT

Tags : Australian Labour Force Changes MIDDLE CLASS JOBS HOLLOWING OUT

78,300 full time jobs were lost for Tradesmen and Tradeswomen in the past year, virtually all of them in the private sector. 65,700 of these full-time jobs lost were formerly held by Tradesmen. 55,500 full time clerical and admin jobs were lost last year. 51,400 of these were former full time jobs in the private

ROLLER COASTER FOR GROWN UPS

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NIMMO BAY Canada. http://nimmobay.com/   Talk about an adrenalin rush. I’m strapped down tight in a Bell Jet helicopter two kilometres above the western coastline of British Columbia and I find myself hanging on to pretty much anything in the chopper to convince myself that flying through the air in a machine without wings is

EDUCATION SECTOR CHANGES 2008-2015

Tags : EDUCATION SECTOR CHANGES 2008-2015

The Australian economy has been hit by a series of economic upheavals and mixed economic responses from Governments since the GFC of 2008. These factors have totally transformed the nature of the Australian Education Market as shown by the interractive ESRI Australia maps which can be seen by clicking on the above picture. The maps

JOB MARKET CHANGES HIT SCHOOLS & UNIS

Tags : Education Geographics JOB MARKET CHANGES JOB MARKET CHANGES HIT SCHOOLS

Only about 45 per cent of year 12 students from Government schools in 2015 said they had a Bachelor degree as their main post-school destination, but the equivalent figure from non-Government year 12 completers was about 63 per cent. Our company Education Geographics profiles non-Government schools and we currently have about ten per cent of

CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY

Tags : Australian Development Strategies

Australian Development Strategies Providing demographic profiling insights to schools to help them balance supply and demand and maintain their enrolment numbers. Adapting to changes in the Educational Market Read More…..

LATEST RESEARCH

Tags : Australian Education Market The Australian economy

  The Australian economy has been hit by a series of economic upheavals and mixed economic responses from Governments since the GFC of 2008. These factors have totally transformed the nature of the Australian Education Market as shown by the interractive ESRI Australia maps which can be seen by clicking on the above picture. The