[open-economics] good data visualisation

Wed Oct 17 13:43:50 UTC 2012

This is very interesting Velichka - could we post this to the School
of Data blog?

Rufus

On 17 October 2012 09:40, Velichka Dimitrova
<velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is really interesting. Especially after the global spike in government
> spending around 2009, many government are making plans on cutting their
> budget.
>
> As it it curious to see what the other data is, I downloaded and looked at
> the country level data as well as the country groups from the IMF's WEO and
> uploaded the two smaller datasets with the total government expenditure
> relative to GDP on the Datahub:
>
> http://thedatahub.org/dataset/weo-govexp
>
> One dataset is the time series for all countries, and the other dataset is
> country groups + United Kingdom.
>
> Looking at the country data, it seems that the UK is making deeper cuts than
> any of the South European countries in crisis are prepared to do. Imagine
> that even Greece is not as drastic as the UK:
>
> See Graph
>
> When comparing with country group averages United Kingdom is indeed plunging
> under the Advanced Economies average. It is still quite interesting to see
> where all country groups have been. In terms of the spiking spending around
> 2009, it is only Latin America that has just gradually increased government
> expenditure around the time of the global financial and economic crisis.
> Asian countries and developing countries have of course much leaner
> governments for the lack of the welfare state.
>
> See Graph
>
> Note: as this is about relative numbers, these spikes in government
> expenditure might not be because of increased spending per se
> (infrastructure investments), but also because global GDP numbers fell
> around the crisis years. Has anyone else done some research in this area?
>
> Would you like to play around with the data yourself and see other
> comparisons between countries?
>
> You are welcome to have a go at the Google Fusion Table with the dataset of
> all countries.
>
> Velichka
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Javier Ruiz <javier at openrightsgroup.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> almost as powerful as the ice hockey graph for climate change
>>
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/15/graph-cameron-wants-shrink-state
>>
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