Category Archives: Visualization

Government Spending – Data Explorer

Posted on November 19, 2010 by psychemedia

A whole swathe of data may now out there, but how can we start to explore it? Here’s one way, using the Google spreaadsheet versions of the data, at departmental level, as republished on the Guardian DataStore: The application allows … Continue reading →

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Where Does My Money Go? Spending Explorer using Protovis and jQuery

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Rufus Pollock

Over the last couple of months I’ve been playing around with Protovis in my spare time to create an interactive pure javascript Government Spending Explorer for Where Does My Money Go? (datastore api): Explorer: http://rufuspollock.org/wdmmg/explorer.html Source: http://bitbucket.org/okfn/wdmmg-js/src/tip/src/explorer.html Warning: won’t work … Continue reading →

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UK Aid: where does my money go?

Posted on October 15, 2010 by kathryncorrick

As part of International Right To Know Day today we’re launching a new addition to the Where Does My Money Go web site – UK Aid Spending. We’ve been working with Publish What You Fund and the Department for International … Continue reading →

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How much does our energy cost?

Posted on August 4, 2010 by lisa

A big part of my motivation for working on the ‘Where Does My Money Go?‘ (WDMMG) project was to learn more about the cost of the UKs energy system and the cost of mitigating climate change. What interests me about … Continue reading →

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Understanding COINS

Posted on June 17, 2010 by lisa

Something amazing has happened since the government spending recorded in the COINS database was made openly available to everyone. I’m talking about the impressive range of free, and in many cases open source, products to display the COINS data.

So far there are COINS search engines from The Guardian and The Open Knowledge Foundation, graphs from Rapid Gate Way and Alpine Interactive and [...]

Related posts:

  1. COINS: A Users Guide
  2. The Hunt For COINS
  3. What was COINS missing? The mystery of the Government’s hidden spending data
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