The acute covid response had lots of novel, rapidly changing data. My personal lunchtime and evenings project summarising NZ’s data had a weirdly high national profile. I have thoughts about why, and how to sustainably contributing usefully in times of crisis.

David Hood is often described as a New Zealand data analyst in media stories, but among data folk he would call himself a data generalist that spends a lot of his time teaching university staff and students software and workflows, along with having an unrelated profile as an advocate of open public data for informed citizenry.

Bluesky