[OpenSpending] Spending data for all 98 municipalities in Denmark

Wed May 8 21:51:58 UTC 2013

Hi Niels Erik,

Interesting idea to generate articles based on the data.

On commentary:
For another example, you might also want to check the work of Adam Stiles
and the rest of the team of Open Budget Oakland. They're encouraging
community participation and had a commentary module on their list of
priorities. Open Budget Oakland is still only a few weeks old, but already
has interesting examples - like this discussion on the costs of servicing
the debt of Oakland:
http://openbudgetoakland.org/mayor_13-15_proposed.html?department=Non-Departmental

Anders

On 8 May 2013 17:06, Niels Erik Kaaber Rasmussen <niels at buhlrasmussen.eu>wrote:

> 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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>
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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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