[OpenSpending] Spending forecasts vs. spending realities

[Lucy Chambers]

Great points guys - I am going to try and talk to Sunlight when I find
a minute, so I will make sure to pass these on!

Lucy

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:40 PM, daniele galiffa
<daniele.galiffa at visup.it> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> 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
>>
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>> 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/
>>>>
>>>> Lucy
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