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Finally Some Answers on Where My Money Goes
It’s an innocent enough question: what does the government spend money on? Now, I’m not an accountant and I’m not a statistician and personally I don’t have a political axe to grind, I just want some answers to this question … Continue reading
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Where Does My Money Go? Phase 2: A Review, And Some Next Steps
We’re pleased to announce that Phase 2 of the Where Does My Money Go project is now complete. This has involved a huge amount of work, completely rebuilding the application from the ground up – from the datastore to the … Continue reading
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How to explore government spending over £25,000 on Where Does My Money Go
Today, the UK government published its spending items over £25,000. From now on, every month you’ll be able to see just what each central government department spent, with whom, and when. Exciting stuff – the current government came to power … Continue reading
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Tagged #openuk, data, government, opendata, opengov, spending, UK, visualisations, wdmmg
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25k Departmental Spending Data in the Data Store
The UK government has just released details of departmental spending over 25k and it has all been loaded into the data store: 25k Departmental Spending Data in the Where Does My Money Go? Data Store As a sample of the … Continue reading
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Where Does My Money Go? Spending Explorer using Protovis and jQuery
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?
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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Tagged aid, aid spending, data, dfid, international, opendata, opengov, righttoknow, UK, visualisation
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Where, in the country, is our tax money used?
One of the aims of ‘where does my money go?’ is to follow the path of our money from the point it is handed to the government as tax, to the point it leaves their hands to give benefit to … Continue reading
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How much does our energy cost?
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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Alpha Version of the Budgetizer
We’ve just put out the alpha of a simple interactive tool — the ‘Budgetizer’ that let’s you explore what has been happening to UK finances in recent years, and what the impact of recent budgets have been. To do this … Continue reading
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What was COINS missing? The mystery of the Government’s hidden spending data
The following article was originally published on the Guardian Datablog by Lisa Evans, the Lead Researcher on the OKF’s Where Does My Money Go? project.
We thought we were getting everything with the COINS release. In fact we were missing the best part of all: the Whole of Government Accounts.
Before he became chancellor George Osborne promised:
We [...]
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