I’ve been having a conversation for a while with @kamal_hothi and @aschiff on maps, schools, census, making NZ data available, etc. This post documents some basic steps I used for creating a map on ethnic diversity in schools at the census-area-unit level. This “el quicko” version requires 3 ingredients:
- Census area units shape files (available from Statistics New Zealand for free here).
- School directory (directory-school-current.csv available for free here).
- R with some spatial packages (also free).