Data is Chaos One of the greatest things about the Internet is
the vast amounts of data available on almost every aspect of our
existence on this planet. The other beauty is the journey that
is taken searching for the data, starting with spirals that
attempt to reach their tails until eventually falling into the
cracks that manifest into endless fractals of potential, and all
the while allowing for the searching of patterns within all the
chaos. In a strange sense (or at least strange to most people),
that is what this site is about, and so we think it's important
to point to the places where data can be discovered. As we had
started the site with the intention of using the 2006 Australian
Census data, we figured it would be best to start from there. As
a result, the initial 9,152 towns/regions came from the ABS,
which includes the place names, census data, and general census
codes. We have also used Shape files available from the ABS, to
set the initial coordinates for each location (using the
centroid for t