Inflation is usually told through a single number. But a slowing inflation rate does not mean prices are falling; it means they are still rising, only a little less quickly than before. The pressure people actually feel comes from a narrower basket — housing, food, transport, energy and insurance — and from whether wages are keeping up. These five charts follow that pressure, using open data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

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Five interactive charts on Australia's gambling habit, built in R for a Data Visualisation assignment (pitched in the style of The Conversation). Using official Australian Gambling Statistics (40th edition), they trace how wagering — betting on racing and sport — has become the fastest-growing slice of a $32-billion-a-year national habit, now a quarter of all gambling losses. Data: Queensland Government Statistician's Office (CC BY 4.0).

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