[OpenSpending] Spending data for all 98 municipalities in Denmark

Wed May 8 21:06:27 UTC 2013

Thanks for the feedback.

It's on purpose that we didn't include a commentary field. As far as I 
remember the German offenerhaushalt used to have a commentary field 
connected to each post on the budget, but it was (at the time I looked 
at it) not extensively used. Politiken asks people to let them know what 
they find, but it's not an integrated feature.

The plans to embed the diagram into articles was dropped again because 
the current design is too narrow to show a decent sized bubble-diagram.

I had an idea on how to generate simple articles for each municipal 
based on the figures. I presented a demo of this, but it was never taken 
any further.

I'd be glad to write a short post on the project.

Best, Niels Erik
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On 2013-05-08 22:07, Anders Pedersen wrote:
> Hi Niels Erik, 
>
> This looks fantastic! I really like the feature added to the diagram
> providing information on spending trends over the years, the
> individual contribution of each taxpayer & comparisons with other
> municipalities. 
>
> A few questions:
> - I'd be really curious about the user feedback, though I don't see a
> commentary field. Is that on purpose? 
> - Are there any plans to occasionally embed diagrams into stories
> focused on particular municipalities (eg. feature the budget of
> Aarhus, when discussing local economic priorities)? 
>
> Any chance you'd be interested in writing up a short post about how
> you created the project?
>
> Anders
>
>  On 8 May 2013 14:43, Niels Erik Kaaber Rasmussen
> <niels at buhlrasmussen.eu> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Today an overview of the spending-data for all Denmarks 98 
>> municipalities has been released at kommune.politiken.dk [1]
>>
>> To make it possible I have collected data from ”Statistics Denmark” 
>> and visualized it using the well-known icons and bubblediagram from 
>> OpenSpending.
>>
>> In Denmark the budgets of the municipalities are well structured and 
>> available for free download at one central place, it's not on 
>> transactional level but still very informative. Budgets can be 
>> compared due to detailed regulation on how municipalities shall do 
>> their bookkeeping.
>>
>> For the site I made a function to compare two different 
>> municipalities and to look up which municipality spends the most/least 
>> on a chosen expenditure post.
>>
>> I made an effort to include not just spending data but also figures 
>> describing the different sources of income. To me it is important that 
>> we do not just point fingers at any expenditures we might find 
>> questionable.
>>
>> I partnered with the national newspaper Politiken to reach a larger 
>> audience. Municipal elections are going to be held in Denmark later 
>> this year.
>>
>> Best, Niels Erik
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>> (+45) 2680 9492 [3]
>>
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