[wdmmg-discuss] Where are the cuts?: Results spreadsheet

Tue May 18 19:03:09 UTC 2010

The government is to publish a list next week.

On 18/05/2010, Alistair Turnbull <apt1002 at goose.minworks.co.uk> wrote:
> I've embeddded our results spreadsheet at the bottom of the "cuts" page:
>
>  	http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/cuts/
>
> There really isn't anything to see at the moment - just some test data and
> one rather non-specific story about £6bn of "efficiency savings", which I
> cannot localise to either a government department or a government
> function. Surely we can find some data... ?
>
> Anyway, at least you can see the data model. It's basically three columns
> for amount, function, dept, plus some metadata and some ungraphable
> free-form data. It is already clear that we're going to need a manual
> clean-up step before republishing the data properly, and the free-form
> data will be useful in that step.
>
> We've had a few ideas for visualisations. The "swiss cheese" idea seems
> popular: show a bubble graph with holes cut out of it.
>
> Other good questions:
>
>   - What about tax rises? These are equivalent to spending cuts, and should
> be included.
>
>   - What about speculation? We probably do want to track it, but how to
> handle it? At least a check-box for "This is definitely going to happen",
> plus an associated filter in the visualisation.
>
>  	Alistair

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