[OpenSpending] Spending forecasts vs. spending realities

Wed Feb 15 07:18:32 UTC 2012

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Fabrizio Scrollini
<fabrizio.scrollini at gmail.com> wrote:
> In terms of throwing some ideas, for budgets a common miss match useful to
> spot is the appropriated budget (a.k.a. what Parliament voted to spend) and
> real (actual)  expenditure.This is in the cases I know data hard to get, but
> still it would be something to think about.

I have this data for Germany and have wanted to work with it in some
way for a while now (it would make a fantastic comparison)! For how to
do it visually, check out this very recent visualization of the US
budget in the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/13/us/politics/2013-budget-proposal-graphic.html
(Tab 3: "Changes"). I think this makes a couple of really strong
points about priorization, would love to do this for OS.

- Friedrich

> On 14 February 2012 18:45, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 14 February 2012 13:56, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
>> > 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/
>>
>> Really nice. It reminds me of the Budgetizer Tim (Hubbard) put
>> together back in 2010 and which he updated on the latest Economics
>> hackday:
>>
>> <http://okfnlabs.org/openspendingjs/app/budgetizer/>
>>
>> The aim of this was to show deficit as predicted and as they actually
>> happened.
>>
>> Tip: switch to deficit (default is inflation) and set to whole period
>> to see the extraordinary mis-estimation of the impact of the financial
>> crisis.
>>
>> Rufus
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