It might also be good to think about a non-dynamic visualisation? I particularly liked the Death & Taxes poster, if anyone remembers it?
http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/ Its the poster a little further down the page, black background, lots of proportional circles. Ben On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 18:21 +0200, William Waites wrote: > 2009/6/16 Rufus Pollock <[email protected]>: > > We've now got confirmation that there'll be some funding from the > > Cabinet Office to do prototyping on "Where Does My Money Go" > > (http://wiki.okfn.org/p/Where_Does_My_Money_Go/). Hurrah! > > Great! Congratulations! > > > * What visualization would people like to see? > > I'm imagining something that looks like a directed graph > (layout options?) with node sizes corresponding roughly > to net assets of an organization and edges coloured to > represent funding flows and sizes. This changes with time, > so a time slider would evolve the picture... > > I also think the problem looks like a social network immersed > in a heat bath, and so can maybe be modelled as a Markov > process with transition probabilities derived from money > outflows. But what can we learn from and how could > we visualize this representation? I'm not sure... > > Just a few thoughts anyhow. > > Cheers, > -w _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
