[okfn-discuss] Where Does My Money Go: what should we work on first?

Tue Jun 16 16:21:08 UTC 2009

2009/6/16 Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>:
> We've now got confirmation that there'll be some funding from the
> Cabinet Office to do prototyping on "Where Does My Money Go"
> (http://wiki.okfn.org/p/Where_Does_My_Money_Go/). Hurrah!

Great! Congratulations!

>  * What visualization would people like to see?

I'm imagining something that looks like a directed graph
(layout options?) with node sizes corresponding roughly
to net assets of an organization and edges coloured to
represent funding flows and sizes.  This changes with time,
so a time slider would evolve the picture...

I also think the problem looks like a social network immersed
in a heat bath, and so can maybe be modelled as a Markov
process with transition probabilities derived from money
outflows. But what can we learn from and how could
we visualize this representation? I'm not sure...

Just a few thoughts anyhow.

Cheers,
-w
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William Waites
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