DiDoesDigital

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Data visualisation engineer in Australia. Author of Practical UI Patterns for Design Systems. Creator of Typey Type for Stenographers. 🔗 https://didoesdigital.com

Sunny Coast Border Collies & Other Dogs. There are 2,879 Border Collies in the Sunshine Coast vs 50,843 other dogs. 1 circle = ~30 doggos. Border Collies shown in blue. Other breeds shown in yellow. 5% of the circles are blue. A ghostly dog outline is filled with circles. Chart: @DiDoesDigital. Icon: Dog by Daniel Ducrocq from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0). Data: Registered Animals, Sunshine Coast Council Open Data Platform, CC BY 3.0 License.

Greater Bilby Populations in Sanctuaries. The latest Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s Annual Bilby Census estimates there are about 5,330 total bilbies in their sanctuaries. This estimate includes about 1,834 bilbies at the Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary on Barkandji country in far western NSW as well as bilbies across 5 other sanctuaries. A visualisation. 1 circle = ~10 bilbies. Yellow dots are Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary. Blue dots are 5 other sanctuaries. The counts grow year by year from 1230 bilbies in 2021 to 5330 in 2025. Chart: @DiDoesDigital Icon: bilby by Abby from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0) Data: Australian Wildlife Conservancy, 4 April 2026

Tessellated Morays & Tessellated Cones. There are recorded sightings of 183 Tessellated Morays (eels) vs 331 Tessellated Cones (sea snails) in The Atlas of Living Australia. Both are weird sea beasts. One bites and one stings. A mosaic visualisation of the recorded sightings by species. Data: The Atlas of Living Australia, Conus (Tesselliconus) tessulatus and Gymnothorax favagineus, 3 Apr 2026. Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Sugar Glider Babies. A sugar glider female gives birth to one (19%) or two (81%) babies (joeys) per litter. Data: Atlas of Living Australia, Sugar Glider, Petaurus breviceps Waterhouse, 1839. Icon: sugar glider by Amethyst Studio from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0). Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Australian Marine Protected Areas. In 2024, almost half (48.9%) of Australia’s oceans were Marine Protected Areas, up from 10% in 2008. Data: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Protected areas, released 15 September 2025, accessed 1 April 2026,
and Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database 2024. Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Australians are the most concerned about misinformation online
AUS: 74%; USA: 73%; RSA: 73%; POR: 71%; SGP: 71%; UK: 71%; SPA: 69%; IRE: 68%; PHI: 67%; BRA: 67%; MEX: 65%; CHL: 64%; CAN: 64%; GRE: 64%; MAL: 62%; TUR: 61%; ARG: 60%; COL: 59%; SRB: 58%; FIN: 58%; CRO: 57%; Global: 57%
Data: Park, S., Fisher, C., McGuinness, K., Lee, J., Fujita, M., Haw, A., McCallum, K. & Nardi, G. (2025). Digital News Report: Australia 2025. Canberra: News and Media Research Centre, University of Canberra. CC BY-NC 4.0.
Graphic: @DiDoesDigital.

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A colourful 6 by 5 grid of charts

Mangroves Prevented $57 Million Worth of Building Damage (2020–21)
Mangroves are critical for coastal resilience, food security, biodiversity protection, and climate change mitigation.
The sankey diagram shows total coastal extent of mangroves: 1,146,131 hectares. Qld: 446,924 hectares; NT: 432,262 hectares; WA: 231,802 hectares; and SA, NSW & Vic 35,143 hectares.
Big statistics show 208281 kilotonnes of stored carbon, 7653 people protected in the highest risk zone, 4006 dwellings protected around coastlines.
Data: Australian Bureau of Statistics (2020-21), National Ecosystem Accounts, experimental estimates, ABS Website, accessed 30 April 2025. Chart: @DiDoesDigital.

Australian Marvel: The Dish
At the Parkes Observatory in 1961, Murriyang (“The Dish”) was one of the first large movable dishes in the world. Still operating after over 60 years, it’s one of Australia’s most successful scientific instruments.
Chart shows the relative scale of Murriyang, “The Dish”, at 64 metres, Giyalung Guluman at 18m, and Giyalung Miil at 12m, with a 6m crocodile for scale.
Crocodile icon by Creative Mahira from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)
Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Reaching for High Digital Inclusion
Digital inclusion means ensuring all Australians have access and use digital technologies effectively.
A chart of Digital Inclusion Index Score across states, territories, and the national average.
Aust.: 73.2; Vic.: 74; NSW: 73; QLD: 73; SA: 72; WA: 73; Tas.: 70; NT: 69; ACT: 78.
Data: Thomas, J., McCosker, A., Parkinson, S., Hegarty, K., Featherstone, D., Kennedy, J., Holcombe-James, I., Ormond-Parker, L., & Ganley, L. (2023). Measuring Australia’s Digital Divide: Australian Digital Inclusion Index: 2023. Melbourne: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, RMIT University, Swinburne University of Technology, and Telstra. Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Waves Over the Last Seven Days
The significant and max wave heights at Queensland sites.
Brisbane's significant wave heights range from 0.85m to 3.17m, with 4 local peaks. Brisbane's max wave heights range from 1.35m to 5.91m with 3 local peaks.
Sunshine Coast's significant wave heights range from 0.54m to 2.2m with 3 local peaks. Sunshine Coast's max wave heights range from 0.92m to 4.23m.
Mackay's significant wave heights range from 0.35m to 1.21m, with 4 local peaks. Mackay's max wave heights range from 0.46m to 2.09m with 3 local peaks.
Cairns's significant wave heights range from 0.2m to 0.59m. Cairn's max wave heights range from 0.29m to 1.34m.
Data: © 2025 Queensland Government (Department of the Environment, Science, Tourism and Innovation), CC BY 4.0, https://qld.gov.au/waves, accessed 27 Apr 2025 at 10.50am.
Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Colours of Cars Sold in WA in 2024
White cars are the most popular sold in Western Australia, followed by grey, silver/chrome, then black.
Greyscale cars: White: 43.55%; Silver/Chrome: 13.7%; Grey: 16.4%; Black: 8.01%;
Colourful cars: Blue: 7.64%; Red: 4.79%; Other: 2.93%; Green: 1.8%; Orange: 1.19%;
Data: WA Department of Transport via https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-10/new-car-colours-more-monochrome-than-ever-before-data-shows/104451484
Chart: @DiDoesDigital

We've Seen 110 Snakes in 4 Years. On average, one every two weeks. Zero snakes have bitten us.
Snake icons grouped by species: 32 Keelbacks, 24 Yellow-faced whip snakes, 15 Red-bellied black snakes, 13 unknown, 11 Common tree snake, 10 Carpet python, 2 Eastern small-eyed snake, 1 Marsh snake, 1 Northern tree snake, and 1 Brown tree snake.
Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Despite High Income, Australia Faces Neglected Tropical Diseases
The number of people in Australia requiring intervention against Neglected Tropical Diseases has come down.
Line chart of numbers over time from 2010 to 2022 with a spike in 2013. 2010: 89,732; 2011: 72,560; 2012: 60,279; 2013: 144,692; 2014: 54,311; 2015: 17,476; 2016: 20,994; 2017: 20,123; 2018: 20,123; 2019: 13,700; 2020: 20,401; 2021: 18,286; 2022: 3,477
Data: World Health Organization, CC BY 4.0, https://data.who.int/indicators/i/95935F3/2D6FBE4 (Accessed on 25 March 2025).
Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Total Dust Emissions Across Australia
Airborne soil particles are worse in summer where ground is dry and there's less vegetation cover compared to winter.
A grouped bar chart of amount of dust in tonnes per hectare to June 2020 grouped by Emission, Dry deposition, and Wet deposition shows the highest emissions from Nov to Jan around 3k tonnes per hectare. Dry depositions are also much higher than wet depositions.
Data: Emmerson KM & Keywood MD (2021). Australia state of the environment 2021: air quality, © Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY 4.0, https://soe.dcceew.gov.au/
Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Find South Using the Stars
In the southern hemisphere, you can use the Southern Cross (aka “Crux”) and The Pointers constellations to find South.
The chart of the Southern Cross and The Pointers shows a line drawn from the highest star of the cross, Gracux, through the lowest star of the cross, Acrux, and another line drawn perpendicular from Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, and the two lines marked as roughly south, not far from where the South Pole is marked.
Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Tassie Tracks Their Old Rocks
This shows the number of listed geosites in the Tasmanian Geoconservation Database by era.
Bar chart of sites by era from Oldest first. Mesoproterozoic: 7; Neoproterozoic: 43; Paleozoic: 249; Mesozoic: 66; Cenozoic: 748; and Unknown: 14.
Data: Natural Values Atlas (www.naturalvaluesatlas.tas.gov.au), 21 Apr 2025, © State of Tasmania · Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Carlton is a Densely Populated Suburb
Carlton, Melbourne is among Australia's most densely populated suburbs. And yet it boasts Victoria's 12th best offering of well-loved open spaces.¹

Line chart of Population density (persons/km²) shows in 2018: 11,453.8; 2019: 11,562.7: 2020: 11,472.5; 2021: 9,382.5; 2022: 9,928.5; and 2023: 11,753.5.

¹ Neighbourlytics (2024), 'Where are Australia's most well-loved open spaces?' https://www.neighbourlytics.com/post/where-are-australias-most-well-loved-open-spaces.
Data: Australian Bureau of Statistics (2024), Data by region, Region summary: Carlton https://dbr.abs.gov.au/region.html?lyr=sa2&rgn=206041117, accessed 19 April 2025.
Chart: @DiDoesDigital.

The Ebbs and Flows of Actively Trading Australian Businesses
In the 2023–2024 financial year, the net change of actively trading businesses, including entries and exits, was 2.8%.
Business Entries: 436,018
Start Total: 2,589,873
End Total: 2,662,998
Business Exits: 362,893
Data: Australian Bureau of Statistics (2024) 'Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits', ABS Website, accessed 19 April 2025. Chart: @DiDoesDigital.

Australia's Press Freedom is Bordering on Problematic
The World Press Freedom Index shows Australia's score is declining (0 is worst, 100 is best).
The line chart shows the score from 2014 to 2024. The scores are: 2024: 73.42; 2023: 78.24; 2022: 73.77; 2021: 80.21; 2020: 79.79; 2019: 83.45; 2018: 84.54; 2017: 83.98; 2016: 82.16; 2015: 82.97; and 2014: 83.09. The "problematic" range of 55–70 is shown. An arrow points to the recent "satisfactory" scores just above problematic.
Note: The methodology changed in 2022. Data: Reporters Sans Frontieres (2025).
Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Times I've Heard a Catbird Wail
The Green Catbird is territorial and likes to attack its reflection in my bedroom window.
5:30 AM. How dare you.
The circles for times of day a catbird wail is heard ranging from 5:30 AM to 6:31 PM, with overlapping circles between 6:40 AM and 7:08 AM as well as between 4:35 PM and 4:54 PM.
Chart: @DiDoesDigital

How Busy I Am vs Quality of Chart
There is a negative relationship between how much I have going on and the respectability of my charts. Forgive me.
The line chart shows quality of chart on Y Axis, "How busy is Di" on the X Axis, and an arrow pointing from the top left to the bottom right showing that as I get busy, quality goes down.
Data: today's activities.
Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Cluster Visits in Season 1 of Sense8
A complicated chord diagram shows Will made the most visits to other sensates at about 38 visits.
Data: CC BY-SA license: https://sense8.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_connections
Code on GitHub.
Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Interest in Mateship Trending Down
The Google search interest in the topic of “Mateship” is trending downward since its last peak in May 2005.
Interest on the Y axis ranges from 0 to 100
Dates on the X axis range from 2004 to 2025, with tick labels for 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020 and 2025.
The interest is very spiky year to year with few peaks and dips each year without an obvious recurring pattern. Until 2010, interest tends to score between 30 and 100. After that it's mostly below 40, except for large spikes in March 2010 at 50, April 2015 at 57, and April 2020 at 61. It's remained below 26 since 2020.
Data: Google Trends (https://www.google.com/trends)
Chart: @DiDoesDigital

ACT Threatened Species
Radial tree diagram showing clusters of Frog, Fish, Mammal, Bird, Reptile, Plant, and Invertebrate threatened species. There are 70 species but their names are clipped off. Each species has a coloured dot next to it. The Koala's name fits and has a light red dot.
Data: ACT threatened species, ACT Government,  CC BY 4.0, https://www.data.act.gov.au/d/9ikf-qahj
Chart: @DiDoesDigital

I’ve Visited 10 of the 20 World Heritage Listed Places in Australia

Map of Australia shows places Visited and Yet to Visit.
Labelled and visited places include: Great Barrier Reef, Sydney Opera House, Uluru & Kata Tjuta
Unlabelled, visited places include: a convict site marked at Cockatoo Island, Naracoorte Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Gondwana Rainforests of Australia marked at Lamington National Park, Greater Blue Mountains Area, Kakadu National Park, Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, and Wet Tropics of Queensland marked at Cairns
Labelled and unvisited places include: Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, K'gari, Ningaloo Coast, Purnululu National Park, Shark Bay, Tasmanian Wilderness, and Willandra Lakes Region
Arrows indicate that Heard and McDonald Islands, Lord Howe Island Group, and Macquarie Island are out of view off the edge of the map

Map: @DiDoesDigital
Data: Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australian Heritage Database

Numbats Eat 15,000+ Termites a Day
The adorable, stripey numbat only eats termites, which are not very nutritious so they have to eat a lot to stay alive.
15,000 tiny termite icons packed in.
Termite icon by Edy Subiyanto from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)
Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Auslan vs Steno Fingerspelling
Australian Sign Language fingerspelling vs stenographic fingerspelling and the English alphabet
The letters a, b, c shown in Auslan gestures, stenographic keyboard layout, and English.
The Auslan fingerspelling sign for "a" is Left hand FIVE handshape with palm facing back and right hand ONE handshape with palm facing forward, touching pointer to left thumb-pad. The fingerspelling sign for "b" is both hands OK handshape with palms facing each other, touching both hands pointer and thumb tips together. The fingerspelling sign for "c" is right hand OPEN CIRCLE handshape with palm facing to the left.
The stenography keys for fingerspelling "a" are A and asterisk. The steno keys for "b" are P, W, and asterisk. The steno keys for "c" are K, R, and asterisk.
Note: The Auslan Finger Spelling font is by Domenico Ventura and the stenographic diagrams are from Typey Type for Stenographers using Plover theory · @DiDoesDigital

A Git Commit Date Is Not the Same as the Author Date
Here are my commits over a period of 150 days and the delay in days from authoring to committing. History diverges!
The chart shows commits as violet lines spread evenly over the X-axis. The length of the lines represents the delay in days from authoring to commit up to 2 days. There is one clump with many commits delayed by hours. There are 2 separate commits that have a large, 2-day delay.
Data: https://github.com/didoesdigital/typey-type/
Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Most Aussie Cyclones are Category 2
The histogram shows 135 category 1 cyclones, 162 category 2 cyclones, 138 category 3 cyclones, 101 category 4 cyclones, and 61 category 5 cyclones.
Note: The number of cyclones since 1974 at each category are calculated from estimated maximum mean wind speeds over 63, 89, 118, 160, & 200km/h, respectively.
Data: Bureau of Meteorology, http://www.bom.gov.au · Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Lismore doesn't always flood
The total rainfall in Lismore each month over 22 years shows how unusually high it's been in recent years.
The line chart shows overlapping lines for 22¼ years of rainfall with higher rainfall during Summer and March. The high points for 2020, 2022, 2017, and 2025 are annotated. They range between 500mm and 900mm. All the other values are below 400mm.
Note: The data is mostly from Lismore Airport AWS. 16 missing values are filled using data from nearby Tuncester and McLeans Ridges sites.
Data: Bureau of Meteorology, http://www.bom.gov.au · Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Births and deaths in NSW
Apr 2024 – Mar 2025
A nightingale rose chart showing births and deaths in each month. The births and deaths bars are stacked and use a radial scale. There were more deaths in July, August, and September. There were fewer deaths in December and March. There were more births in July, October, January, and February. There were fewer births in August and December.
Data: NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages · @DiDoesDigital

It was really wet in March 2025
The old March record rainfall in Queensland vs the new March record rainfall set in March 2025 across 64 sites.
A line chart showing Old record March rainfall (mm) and March 2025 rainfall (mm) for the 64 sites. Old March record rainfall for the sites range from 109.4mm to 1407.0mm. March 2025 rainfall for the sites range from 151.6mm to 1668.0mm. The top March 2025 value is shown as #1 Cardwell 1,668mm. Other notable March 2025 sites include #3 Lower Springbrook Alert 1468.0mm, #7 Townsville at 1004.6mm, and #30 Brisbane at 604.8mm. The majority of the lines are mostly blue for small increases in records and a few are mostly orange for large increases. The biggest change was at the Lower Springbrook alert.
Data: Bureau of Meteorology, http://www.bom.gov.au · Chart: @DiDoesDigital

It was really wet in March 2025
The average March rainfall in Queensland vs the March 2025 rainfall for the 64 sites that set a new March rainfall record.
A line chart showing Average March rainfall (mm) and March 2025 rainfall (mm) for the 64 sites. Average March rainfall for the sites range from 37.5mm to 473.3mm. March 2025 rainfall for the sites range from 151.6mm to 1668.0mm. The top March 2025 value is shown as #1 Cardwell 1,668mm. Other notable March 2025 sites include #2 Springbrook at 1468.0mm, #7 Townsville at 1004.6mm, and #30 Brisbane at 604.8mm.
Data: Bureau of Meteorology, http://www.bom.gov.au · Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Big or small, data breaches affect us all. Selected breaches with sensitive data affecting Australians in a bubble chart by size: Latitude: 14 million, MediSecure: 12.9 million, Optus: 9.8 million, Medibank: 9.7 million, ProctorU, ANU, Service NSW, and Melbourne Heart Group. Chart: @DiDoesDigital

Macadamia nut season is long. Macadamia nuts usually fall to the ground when they are ready, over 5–6 months. Chart: @DiDoesDigital

My wellbeing during the  30 day chart challenge 2025. Just in time for the “slope” theme. Do not eat the recalled spinach. The slope chart shows a decrease in wellbeing from Day #1 to Day #2. Chart: @DiDoesDigital

97% of adults in Australia have limited skills to verify information online. 45% no ability. 52% emerging ability. 3% developing ability. Source: Sora Park, Tanya Notley, T. J. Thomson, Aimee Hourigan, Michael Dezuanni, 3 Dec 2024, https://apo.org.au/node/328959. Chart: @DiDoesDigital

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While CSS counters are usually created and named manually, CSS provides 2 automatic page-based counters: page for page numbers and pages for the total number of pages in the document.

To show page numbers at the bottom center of every page, you can add this:

@page {
@bottom-center {
content: "Page " counter(page);
}
}

On page 2, you would see “Page 2”.

43 snake icons grouped by colour.