The idea
Make New Zealand's international financial relationships visible as an explorable system.
The connection
The key authored choice is which flows can fairly be compared. Trade, investment and other financial measures have different definitions; visual elegance depends on getting those distinctions right.
System design
The following structure makes the project concept inspectable and defines the implementation to demonstrate.
What would prove it
Choose a sample of displayed values and reconcile them to the source tables, including negative values, missing observations and changes in reporting period.
The next complete milestone
A publication-ready version needs a data dictionary, visible source dates, consistent currency treatment and accessible alternatives to visual encodings. Its strength is letting a reader answer a precise question and trace the answer back to data.
Project record
An interactive data visualisation tracing New Zealand's international money flows — built to make a dense trade/finance dataset explorable rather than just tabular.
Source: the published APX project register, recovered 28 September 2026. This study explains the design direction and evaluation path; it is not a fresh audit of the product implementation.