At Nicholson Consulting, we partner with many organisations that are dedicated to making Aotearoa a better place. From te reo Māori revitalisation, to providing opportunities to rangatahi, to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities – many of the organisations we work with aspire to change…

Payments NZ knew that Māori data sovereignty rights were important, and that Māori data governance could help give effect to Māori data sovereignty, but they weren’t sure how to go about the finer details of implementation. Nicholson Consulting’s Māori data team was able to support Payments NZ on their journey.

Since our last post about using HAP to develop community insights for Te Mātāwai, Kōtātā Insight and Nicholson Consulting have partnered with Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori to use HAP to provide additional insights around Maihi Karauna – the Crown’s strategy for Māori Language Revitalisation.

Propensity matching is a statistical technique that can give more confidence to service providers, policy makers, or anyone responsible for ensuring that evaluations of large programmes of work are robust.

Our Analytics Lead Sally Hett and former Analytics Lead Dani Lucas had an article published that takes a look back on mana whenua and Crown local governance in Pōneke, and encourages readers to consider the historical context when making decisions today.

In 2022, our Maaori Data kaimahi worked on a fantastic project with Waikato-Tainui. This mahi included conducting data analysis that would inform the provision of their wellbeing services and support targeted COVID-19 vaccination efforts.

To celebrate Mahuru Māori 2023, we’re sharing a hand trick for adding te reo Māori intros and sign-offs to your Outlook.

In December 2022 Nicholson Consulting officially became a certified B Corporation™! This is a huge milestone as it gives weight to the fact that our business is driven by impact.

OHI Data Navigator takes complex wellbeing data and organises it in a way that is accessible and useful to those working towards better outcomes for our rangatahi.

As more people consider the role AI should play in our future, we thought it would be an excellent time to think about the unique opportunities, challenges, and risks that AI presents to Māori in Aotearoa.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field of computer science that focuses on getting computers to understand, process, and generate human language.

Nicholson Consulting was selected by Stats NZ to help weave the realisation of potential together through Māori data expertise in the data system architecture and design space.