[wdmmg-discuss] Treasury announcement

Mon May 24 11:58:45 UTC 2010

Guardian Datablog spreadsheet at:

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/may/24/coalition-government-public-finance

Simon: would be fantastic to collaborate with you guys on this sort of thing.

In terms of what we do with data on cuts, one idea might be to connect
current and historical information with news stories, parliamentary
transcripts and so on (probably added by users in the first
instance?). There have been various experiments with this kind of
thing [1], but I think the challenge would be to present it in a
compelling way, giving meaningful context, etc.

David McCandless also suggested something where users can play around
with different scenarios/projections of plans to deal with the deficit
- which would be interesting!

Any other ideas for things to do with cuts data? Or where we can get
historical data on cuts?

All the best,

Jonathan

[1] E.g. http://data-gov.tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Demo:_Linking_Agency_Budgets_and_New_York_Times_News

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:19 PM, David Jones <david.jones at okfn.org> wrote:
> The 6 billion cuts have been announced by the treasury:
>
> http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/psr_reducing_government_deficit.htm
>
> Scroll down for links to press notices and transcripts.
>
> We hope to be adding this to the cuts page:
>
> http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/cuts/
>
> Please do pitch in!
>
> David Jones
>
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