Sunday, July 1, 2012

Census can be beautiful (at least from Australia)

Australia completed its 2011 census to find that there are 21 million plus people there. Usually census tends to be boring with lots of statistical data by the state and region putting the reader to easy sleep. Lo and behold the folks from down under decided to violate the soporific statistical tables and have shown that they are masters of 21st century medium.

Visit http://www.sbs.com.au/news/census/ to check it out for yourself. The census data is nicely blended with maps and interactivity to provide a fantastic tour of the Australian population. Of course English is the most popular language spoken by nearly 77% of the population. The census also shows that there are almost as many Japanese speakers as there are Tamil speakers. And the heat map by province and region is fun to play with. Go Enjoy learning about Australia!

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