Voyages around New Zealand

During our spring/summer seasons New Zealand gets a lot of cruise ship visitors. But where do they go when they visit?

The NZ Government helpfully provides a static Excel spreadsheet of the cruise ships and their arrival/departure times from our ports. But that isn't a particularly informative way of presenting such data. So, the obvious thing to do with a list of cruise ships visitors is to map them. So, here's an animated view of all the visits from the 2017 season using augmented NZ Government-issue data. Now we can:

• Track individually the wide array of ships that visit us
• See the ships arriving and leaving based on a unified timeline
• Map their paths around the country
• Identify the most popular paths
• See the ebb and flow of visitors

Look out for our largest visitor (Ovation of the Seas), our most frequent visitor (Noordam), our most regal visitor (Queen Victoria), and our busiest month (February).

Click on the image to go to the youTube animated video.

Winter Olympics and Commonwealth Games' Medal Maps

Different countries have different sporting strengths and achieve at different levels. The Zyan Medals mini-site features charts for 70 countries showing how well they have done at the last five Winter Olympics and/or Commonwealth Games. The charts, radial dendrograms, show which sports and events are strengths for each country by identifying medals they have won.

The charts cover the Winter Olympiads of 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014, and the Commonwealth Games of the same years. Visit the mini-site here: Zyan Medal Maps

This is the independent Zyan analysis of US international goods trade based on data provided by USA Trade Online, part of the Department of Commerce, as available in February 2017.

The graphic shows the relative importance of most countries to the United States from a trade perspective, it shows the geographical picture of US trade in goods, the nature and scale of the trade balance with other countries, and an insight into the components of US trade.

With a total annual trade envelope of $3.75 trillion and a new administration with strong views on international relationships, the graphic provides a starting point to consider what may happen next.

This graphic takes readily available data on Muslim populations, by country, and shows how they are spread around the world. It is intended to illustrate that simple solutions to complex problems take considerable thought, innovation, and courage. Solutions also need to reflect local, regional, and global diversity within the overall Muslim population.

And the world needs solutions. We all need to do a lot more to reduce the causes of conflict so that we can better manage all our futures.

This is the independent Zyan analysis of New Zealand Treasury's annual survey across 27 Government agencies on the cost, efficiency, and effectiveness of the agencies' ICT spend.

The site explores that ICT data to present a general understanding of what agencies spend their money on, how agencies compare, and how the ICT ecosystem of the New Zealand Government operates.

With an annual spend of just over $1 billion, it's an important area of government activity and should be open to public observation. 2014/15 is the latest available data.

The Amazing Race TV program from CBS takes you on a journey to all sorts of interesting places. But where exactly are those places? zyanraces attempts to place the start/end of each leg on a Google map.

There's 25 of the American Amazing Race editions, four Amazing Race Asia editions, three Amazing Race Australia editions, and two Amazing Race Philippines Editions.

Zyan maps plots battles on Google maps with animation so you can see what happened. The first battle available is Waterloo. The Battle of Waterloo occurred 200 years ago this year. It was a monumental struggle involving a huge number of events, participants, and getting even an approximation of the battle on to a Google Map is a challenge. Animating it adds even more complexity. See what you think of our effort and watch events unfold in both time and space. Note it does not run in Internet Explorer.

Zyan Consulting produced an economic value chain map (EVC) model for the New Zealand Government for software. Here's an interactive version of the EVC.