Category Archives: Demographics

What is Geography Anyway? National Geographic Education Summit 2019, Washington, D.C.

GIS in the Classroom

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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


Enrolment projections – an art or a science? Written By Reg Kernke, Director of Education Geographics

Enrolment projections – an art or a science?

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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


Election Analysis 2019 - Esri Map - ADS Australian Development Strategies, demographic specialists in Australia

ELECTION ANALYSIS 2019

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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.


The ballard of Nan and Pop - John Black

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

USING SCIENCE TO FIND THE FAITHFUL

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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 - Technically a map is defined as a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.

APPS FROM MAPS USING LOCATION INTELLIGENCE IS A WHOLE NEW WORLD

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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 analysing its contents and finding patterns, assessing trends, and making decisions about what we are


John Black and Jack Dangermond

THE GEOSPATIAL CLOUD: FAST INSIGHTS INTO BIG DATA

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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?

WOULD YOU LIKE A PIE SCORE WITH THAT?

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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


Independent School Enrolments By Streets and By Schools by Australian Development Strategies

COMPETITION AT THE COALFACE

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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 Map - Education Geographics

SES FUNDING AND POSSIBLE WINNERS AND LOSERS

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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