The Bird of the Year race as a data visualisation!

The Bird of the Year contest, run by wildlife advocate Forest & Bird, asks the public to vote for their favourite New Zealand native bird. People get very excited by this, with campaigns coalescing around particular birds and much trash-talk between rival camps.

This year, the race was between the kākāpō and the hoiho or yellow-eyed penguin. Find out which bird won and what voting looked like on the way there in a neat little data visualisation by Yvan Richard of Dragonfly Data Science here. Read a story about this year’s race here. #BirdoftheYear