Census is any country is important in making major policy decisions and can affect your day-to-day, but it’s not always obvious how. Leading up to the August 9 Australia Census, the Australian Bureau of Statistics put together an interactive called Spotlight, which helps its citizens understand the data a little better.
Spotlight takes some of the data from the last Census – conducted in 2006 – and turns it into a simple interactive movie, to show just a few of the interesting things that the Census can tell us about Australia’s people and population.
As you go through the interactive, it asks you little bits about you such as gender and where you live, and then tells you information about what Census says about you and what’s around. It also zooms out to put things in perspective.
The voice-over helps to make it extra playful. Even as a non-Australian, I found it pretty entertaining.
really stunning! i think things like this really help rising interest in data, would be nice to know if young people like this stuff or simply ignore it :-)
really cool…..what software was used to create this?
And it’s even narrated by one of Australia’s funniest comedians, Shaun Micallef! King of absurdist humour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_VU_Pulmw
It’s a cool site, but the pic above misrepresents the size of the Australian population. See http://imgur.com/fbQ8A
@Rob – You get a gold star.
I’ll treasure it forever. Many years from now, I’ll show my grandchildren the star and say to them, with all the pride in the world “I got that star there back in 2011, for being a pedant on the internet”.
Rob, that’s awesome! Nice catch.