[wdmmg-discuss] £495bn vs £700bn

Wed Jul 28 17:03:27 UTC 2010

On Jul 28, 2010, at 6:14 PM, Rufus Pollock wrote:

> 2. Data for 2010-2011 and possibly 2009-2010 (which are projection
> data for our data) is clearly missing a massive chunk of spending
> (this is missing in source CRA data). With a bit of examination you
> can clearly see this due to Local Authority info being completely
> absent (they don't do projections it seems)
>
> For me item 2 is a really big issue. We've discussed various options:
>
> 1. Remove these years from dashboard (or system entirely)
> 2. Put a clear annotation on the dashboard (how?)
> 3. Correct the data as best we can

Very important to fix this. As a minimum, we should mark a clear cut- 
off in the visualization at the point from which the data is obviously  
incomplete. A good visual cue would be to make incomplete years look  
deliberately inaccurate, with fuzzy lines, or otherwise indicating  
deviations from expectations.

The ideal would be to visualize aggregated spending, (which we have)  
overlaid with an expected projection (which we don't have).

Do we have any way to predict those figures? Can we do a rough but  
inaccurate estimate based on the numbers from previous years? Work  
backwards from the estimated £700bn?

...

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