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The Cooper family from Tapping own two of WA’s most popular cars.

WA’s favourite cars revealed: do your wheels reflect where you live?

Use our interactive to find out the top 10 car models in your postcode and check out the map showing Perth’s most popular vehicles.

  • Claire Ottaviano, Craig Butt and Angus Delaney

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Hilux, Corolla or Golf? The most popular cars in your postcode

Use our interactive to discover the top 10 makes in your postcode and see the map revealing the concentration of models across Sydney.

  • Matt Wade, Craig Butt and Angus Delaney
Heather Landsdowne, left, and Lauren Light are helping keep the work of the Australian Bureau of Statistics relevant for younger generations.

The government social media team giving statistics a sexy rebrand

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has garnered a loyal fan base of followers online for its playful approach to a typically dry topic.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

The budget explained in seven charts

The government is attempting to tiptoe a tricky path out of strife. Here are seven charts that break everything down.

  • Josh Gordon and Craig Butt
Unemployment highs and lows in Sydney.

Where unemployment is highest (and lowest) in Sydney

Unemployment has ratcheted higher in Sydney. Here’s how the city’s regions compare on jobs.

  • Matt Wade

How the digital world is getting better at measuring us up

The advent of computers has allowed businesses and governments to record, calculate, play with and store huge amounts of data. But we’re still in the early days of exploiting this opportunity to be better informed about what’s happening in the economy.

  • Ross Gittins
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A virus is both a dead collection of complex chemicals, and an incipient, bottled genie.

It was a compelling piece of COVID-19 data. It was also wrong

A freedom of information request has revealed that the Victorian health department wasn’t being transparent in some of its COVID-19 death reporting.

  • Aisha Dow
Australian renters are battling an unholy trinity of soaring prices, increased competition for places and a broken housing market that limits supply and prioritises investor landlords.

Ten charts that explain the rental crisis in Australia

More than three in 10 Australian households rent privately and renters are an increasingly diverse group, new data reveals.

  • Nigel Gladstone
Founder of COVID Live Anthony Macali volunteered many thousands of hours to make COVID data more easily accessible.

Volunteers honoured for COVID-19 data crunching

When Australians were hungry for up-to-date COVID-19 information at the height of the pandemic, a data analyst and a journalist stepped forward.

  • Aisha Dow
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AI is revolutionising healthcare, but at what risk for patient privacy and consent?

Artificial Intelligence is now sufficiently sophisticated to re-identify individuals from de-identified health data. We must quickly develop rules for its ethical use.

  • Jon Faine

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