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 JONATHAN O’BRIEN                                                                   [HOME] [WRITING] [PROJECTS] [ADVISORY] [CV]
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 Value is created through
 rigour and refinement.

 I bring together rigorous data, attentive editing, sharp design, and robust
 tools to build the evidence and organisations that make the world better.



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 AUSTRALIAN ZONING ATLAS                    INFLECTION POINTS                          THE BEIGE INDEX
 The first nation-wide zoning map for       Australia's newest, greatest, and only     Measuring ethnic representation and
 cross-city comparisons. Lead researcher,   long-form policy magazine. Founder,        diversity across the IMDb Top 250.
 with Ethan Gilbert and Paul Spasojevic.    designer, and editor-in-chief.             Co-created with Miles Franklin–winning
                                                                                       author Siang Lu.

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 Open-source tools for working with Australian data.

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 SHUCK                                      TROVER                                     READABS-MCP
 Get documents out from behind              Search Trove, the National Library's       Make Australian Bureau of Statistics
 client-side code. Very useful for          digitised newspaper archive, without an    data accessible to LLMs. Built on
 working with government websites.          API key.                                   readabs by Matt Cowgill.

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