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

Tue Jun 16 16:32:45 UTC 2009

It might also be good to think about a non-dynamic visualisation? I
particularly liked the Death & Taxes poster, if anyone remembers it?

http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/

Its the poster a little further down the page, black background, lots of
proportional circles.

Ben

On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 18:21 +0200, William Waites wrote:
> 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