[OpenSpending] Spending forecasts vs. spending realities

daniele galiffa daniele.galiffa at visup.it
Tue Feb 14 14:40:52 UTC 2012


I think Velichka found a good point.

It should be interesting to evaluate and compare the "spread" among
forecast and reality to compare accurancy in budgeting.



On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Velichka Dimitrova <
velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hey Lucy,
>
> this looks great. I like the comparison between the forecast and the
> actual performance and I think one could also make an index of forecasting
> accuracy, the visualisation is nice, but it can be supported by some
> metrics to make a point and show how forecasting accuracy has improved/got
> worse even within a single administration.
>
> Velichka
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Ivan Begtin <ibegtin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Really amazing! I hope they will open source it.
>>
>> Thanks for sharing.
>>
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>> 2012/2/14 Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>
>>
>>> Amazing piece of work from the Sunlight Foundation on Spending forecasts
>>> vs. spending realities alongside the political evens which may have sparked
>>> the changes.
>>>
>>> http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/budgets/
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