[ddj] Budget visualization tool for journalists

Avner Kantor avnerkantor at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 16:49:26 UTC 2017


Nice, but why not open source?

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Daniel Sedlacek <daniel at wikibudgets.org>
wrote:

> Hi all
>
> We are a small team of idealists who developed a tool for visualizing
> budgets.
>
>
> *Showcase 1*: https://uk.wikibudgets.org/w/united-kingdom-budget-2015
>
>
> Our mission is to visualize budgets of all public organizations of the
> world, from governments and states, to agencies, offices and bureaus, to
> cities and towns, to schools, hospitals and all public benefit corporations.
>
>
> *Showcase 2:* https://uk.wikibudgets.org/w/united-kingdom-budget-2015
>
>
> So far we only have data for UK, US and Czech Republic governments along
> with all 6,280 Czech Cities and Towns.
>
>
> *Showcase 3:* https://cz.wikibudgets.org/w/praha-2016
>
>
> What you can do with the tool:
>
> 1/
> Embed any of the visualized budgets into your article or blog for free
> with a simple embed code.
>
> 2/
> Create your own private budget <https://www.wikibudgets.org/pricing> visualization
> from $9/month to support our project.
>
>
> 3/
> Write about our story - how our small team took on the world with our
> mission <https://www.wikibudgets.org/#mission> to rationalize politics,
> kill alternative facts, pierce filter bubbles and stop corruption.
>
>
>
>
> Daniel Sedlacek
>
> CEO
>
> wikibudgets.org  | @wikibudgets <https://twitter.com/wikiBudgets>
>
>
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