[openspending-dev] [OpenSpending] Representing multiple years of budget data

Mon Oct 22 09:06:03 UTC 2012

Just to add to this: we're working on a new combined widget of treemap
and table that will have roughly the functionality of
http://bund.offenerhaushalt.de/ (as well as time-based line graphs and
bar charts). If you want, you can combine this with the year slider we
use from jQuery UI very easily to have this simple change of years.

See:

https://github.com/openspending/openspendingjs/tree/master/app/treetable
https://github.com/openspending/openspendingjs/blob/master/app/bob/bob.js#L128

Cheers,

 - Friedrich

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi Maurice,
>
> Moving this discussion over to the OpenSpending-dev list
> (http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/openspending-dev) as that is
> where we are currently talking about OpenSpending software issues!
>
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Maurice McNaughton
> <mlmcnaughton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> When adding data for multiple budget years to Open Spending, the graphical
>> widgets (embedded html) for the Tree Map and Bubble tree don't readily
>> represent year as a navigatable dimension. In fact the Bubble Tree presents
>> the entire cumulative budget for all years, while the Tree map doesn't
>> present any option of viewing individual years. Is there any way to include
>> year as a selectable option in these widgets?
>
> Tree Map: We don't currently have a slider as part of the widget, but
> we may need to at some point, others have requested this. However, you
> can focus in on a particular year by using the filters when setting up
> the visualisation. You'll only be able to see one year at a time,
> however, that should solve your issue.
>
>> Also how does one navigate back up a hierarchical Tree Map. Once your drill
>> down in the hierarchy, there doesn't seem to be any intuitive way to return
>> to the upper level of the hierarchy without doing an html refresh?
>>
>
> We're working on this, it was raised last week as well. A couple of
> suggestions we have had include right-clicking, but we want to find a
> way to do this that doesn't involve changing default browser
> behaviour. We have some thoughts, including options on rollover, a
> hyperlink just outside the canvass, but if you have other ideas for
> what you would like to see, please do let us know!
>
> Lucy
>
>> Welcome any suggestions
>> Mlm
>>
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