[wdmmg-discuss] Spending diagram in the Guardian

Alistair Turnbull apt1002 at goose.minworks.co.uk
Thu Apr 15 14:38:40 UTC 2010


Sorry if you've seen this before, but there's a rather nice diagram of 
public spending here (thanks to Noel Lyons for the pointer):

 	http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2009/09/16/Public_spending_160909.pdf
 	http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/sep/16/public-spending-departments-money-cuts

They have chosen a different tree structure from us. They have put 
department at the top, instead of function. The notes at the bottom also 
warn of double-counting, due to departments paying each other to do 
things.

Can anybody tell where they got their data from, and how they've processed 
it? There's a link to a Google spreadsheet, if that helps:

 	http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tedz8cV7S-pCckkelxNhmAA

 	Alistair




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