Shades Of A Sunburnt People
- Created by
- Duck and Monkey (Kaitlin Duck Sherwood, Matthew Chudek)
- Other datasets used
- Australian Bureau of Statistics: Census community profiles; Australian Bureau of Statistics: Census of Population and Housing: Census Geographic Areas Digital Boundaries, Australia, 2006; Australian Bureau of Statistics: Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA)
Australians come in all shapes, sizes, ages, incomes, educations and ancestries. Our site allows you to explore the various shades of Australians by selecting from a range of demographic overlays. Each rapidly shades our nation in attractively sunburnt tones (though users may select their own colour spectrum too), representing the range of Australian diversity at the highest resolution for which data are available.
Our interface also allows users to customise the range of values they want mapped to their preferred colour spectrum – allowing them to make comparisons between their suburb or town and the next one over, just as easily as they can compare between states or rural and urban areas. The default settings allow our map to fit neatly on the lowest-resolution monitors common today, but a drop down interface allows it be quickly resized to present a more detailed display to users with larger monitors.
Australia is a a large nation with a diverse people; that makes for a very large amount of information embedded in our deceptively simple page. Still, our custom rendering algorithms ensure that overlays, however dense the information they present, appear without any long delays.
You might examine your own suburb or town, study the way geography shapes the people who settle in different places in your city or state or try to gain a deeper understanding of the multicultural patchwork of our nation. Whatever the questions this tool helps you answer, we hope you enjoy visually exploring the demographic shades of our sunburnt people.
