Research and documentation projects that don’t fit under energy, transport, combinatorics or cryptography.
The London-based Pakistani commodity dealer at the centre of Australia’s 1975 Loans Affair, which contributed to the dismissal of the Whitlam government. A sourced timeline of his life assembled from contemporary press, archives and court records.
A documentation site for the derelict Waltons/Overell department-store building in Brisbane: heritage-register records, land titles, forty years of court files, and a timeline built from primary sources rather than press coverage.
The documents seized in the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran were republished by the students as the 73-volume Asnad-e Lane-ye Jasusi series. This is a searchable single-page OCR edition of the roughly 6,300 English-language source pages (16 MB), with a companion dramatis personae: 370 people indexed, with CIA cryptonyms decoded where possible. Source scans: Internet Archive.
An interactive 3D map built for the Newcastle Cycleways Movement. It reproduces the Institute for Sensible Transport’s Bicycle Use Propensity Index, the metric behind the City of Newcastle’s Cycling Plan 2021–2030, recovering the exact 2016 formula and refreshing it with 2021 census data for a like-for-like comparison. (Interactive WebGL page; loads its map libraries from a CDN.)
Visitors’ verdicts on the compulsory hire-bike helmets of Rottnest Island, Western Australia: a collection of contemporary accounts.
Cycling-history radio interviews (ABC Victoria regional stations, 12 October 2021):
Cryptography-related material (articles, group posts, bibliographies and radio interviews) is on the Kryptos page.