How I created a Twitter bot that posts about science fiction books

Posted on Fri 31 March 2023 in Blog • Tagged with twitter-bot, data-engineering

As an avid reader I thought it would be cool to combine my love of literature and data to create a Twitter bot that posts about sci-fi books:

Specifically I wanted to recommend science fiction books that you could read free of charge, something made …


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A look at the political parties of Australia's prime ministers

Posted on Fri 24 March 2023 in Blog • Tagged with data-visualisation, waffle-chart, pictogram

With the NSW election coming up this weekend I've had politics on my mind.

I was curious to see how many prime ministers we've had from which political parties:

Australians who know their history might note that we've only had 31 prime ministers while in …


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Where are Australia's oil and gas pipelines located?

Posted on Wed 22 March 2023 in Blog • Tagged with data-visualisation, geospatial-data

Recently I was browsing Geoscience Australia's datasets and came across a useful database of "known spatial locations of onshore and offshore pipelines or pipeline corridors used to transport natural gas, oil and other liquids within Australia’s mainland and territorial waters."

I thought it'd be interesting to see on a …


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