The CBD changing use: office floor space and places to live and stay in the City of Melbourne's census blocks, 2002 to 2024.
Copyright 2026 Craig Muldoon. Made with Plotlay (https://www.getplotlay.com).

This repository contains code, data we made, and data from the sources below.

CODE
  The notebook and the Power BI project (its Power Query, DAX and report files) are licensed under the MIT licence
  (LICENSE).

DATA WE MADE
  The block shapes in data/geometry/ (with their formula columns), the block names in data/clue/block_names.csv and
  the charts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (LICENSE-DATA). Please credit: "Blocks
  and charts: Plotlay (getplotlay.com), from City of Melbourne open data". They are made from the sources below, whose
  credits also apply.

UPSTREAM SOURCES

  City of Melbourne Open Data, data.melbourne.vic.gov.au. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
  International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    - Floor space per space use for blocks (Census of Land Use and Employment, CLUE), 2002 to 2024
      https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/explore/dataset/floor-space-by-use-by-block/
    - Blocks for Census of Land Use and Employment (CLUE)
      https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/explore/dataset/blocks-for-census-of-land-use-and-employment-clue/
    - Road Segment (the street names round each block)
      https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/explore/dataset/road-segment/
    Changes: the floor space columns office, residential_apartment, commercial_accommodation,
    student_accommodation and total_floor_space_in_block kept; the blocks taken into Plotlay whole and keyed by
    block_id; each block named from the streets round it.

  Base map in the Plotlay project and the app screenshots
    © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia), licensed under CC BY 4.0.

NOT INCLUDED
  Nothing in this repository is derived from OpenStreetMap. No imagery was traced. Nothing here implies endorsement
  by the City of Melbourne. The census holds back figures for two businesses or fewer; nothing here tries to reveal
  them.

THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE
  The notebook uses pandas, GeoPandas, Shapely and Matplotlib (installed from requirements.txt, each under its own
  licence).
