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Freelance information designer and creative dev specialising in data viz, front-end development, info design, and digital cartography.
Jun 28, 2021 8 tweets 5 min read
One year on from NSWs parliamentary inquiry into #koala populations, the findings are even more pressing.

Launching today, an interactive summary of the inquiry: koalas.fyi

Key points in the thread below 👇 The inquiry committee included Liberal, Labor, Nats, AJP and Greens members. They found habitat loss and fragmentation was THE critical threat. Koalas are suffering a "death by a thousand cuts" through ongoing land development, logging, agricultural land clearing & mine sites.
May 5, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Latest map project. India’s disputed borders with China and Pakistan are a cartographers nightmare.

What I learned in the process; or a (ridiculously) brief history: 🇨🇳🇮🇳
Line of control established after 1962 Sino-Indian war. Recent standoffs along the de-facto border culminated in the 2020 Galwan Valley skirmish; 20 Indian soldiers died (first deaths there since 1975). Troop disengagement announced by both sides in Feb 2021.