We bring New Zealand’s
public data together,
once.
Data n Dashboards is a Wellington team of data engineers, analysts and designers. We built Community Pulse so councils, agencies and community organisations stop rebuilding the same data, one spreadsheet at a time.
78 councils. 1.5 analysts each.
The same data, rebuilt 78 times.
Every council, agency and trust was pulling the same official releases, cleaning them by hand and arriving at slightly different numbers. We decided to do that work once, properly, for everyone.
40+ official sources ingested on their own release schedules, checked and standardised before anyone sees them.
13 themes aligned to the same geography, so a district in Northland and one in Southland compare like for like.
Every number carries its source, unit and period, so what goes in front of elected members can be checked.
The people behind the platform.
A small, senior team. The people who build Community Pulse are the people who walk you through it.
Leads strategy and partnerships with councils and central government agencies.
Built the data lake: ingestion, cleaning and alignment across 40+ official sources.
Turns council questions into dashboards and reports elected members can act on.
Owns the Community Pulse Connector for Claude and its grounding and caveat rules.
Runs onboarding, walkthroughs and data health checks for every new subscriber.
Looks after boundaries, area hierarchies and the map layers behind every view.
Trusted across Aotearoa.
Uses Community Pulse’s boundary and geography data — GeoJSON exports and area hierarchies — to map catchments and overlay growth trends across the region.
Four things we won’t compromise on.
Our tools never write back to your systems. Not behind a flag, not for an administrator.
If a figure can’t be confirmed against the data, we say so instead of filling the gap.
Designed around New Zealand geography, institutions and the way councils actually report.
Documentation and training come with everything we build, so you’re never dependent on us.