[okfn-discuss] Where Does My Money Go updates

Thu Sep 24 20:56:30 BST 2009

Just to follow this up, I've put up a new blog for Where Does My Money Go at:

  http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/

News is syndicated from the main OKF blog.

Also Lisa has put up a new blog post about the project at:

  http://blog.okfn.org/2009/09/24/discovering-where-my-money-goes-i-pesa/

Jonathan

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> First up some really good news: as a winner of Show Us a Better Way
> we've now (finally) received a grant from Government to help us
> develop the prototype Where Does My Money Go site.
>
> We've engaged Iconomical to help us with the data visualization and we
> **need lots of suggestions and help with finding data and presenting
> it in cool ways.**
>
>
> Second, and highly relevant to this, the Guardian put out its take
> couple of days ago:
>
> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/interactive/2009/sep/16/public-spending-larry-elliott>
> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/sep/16/public-spending-departments-money-cuts>
>
> This is a really nice visualization. I wonder how it gets done (it
> looks so neat that I would guess  at least some of it is "by hand").
>
> Data is also really good -- it is stated to be IFS (looks to be PESA
> plus consolidation of supplementary budget estimates). I've added it
> to our data summary page for WDMMG:
>
> <http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tR5kH6P2dRvC0hl0Ie_adtg>
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus
>
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