Just to follow this up, I've put up a new blog for Where Does My Money Go at:
http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/ News is syndicated from the main OKF blog. Also Lisa has put up a new blog post about the project at: http://blog.okfn.org/2009/09/24/discovering-where-my-money-goes-i-pesa/ Jonathan On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Rufus Pollock <[email protected]> wrote: > First up some really good news: as a winner of Show Us a Better Way > we've now (finally) received a grant from Government to help us > develop the prototype Where Does My Money Go site. > > We've engaged Iconomical to help us with the data visualization and we > **need lots of suggestions and help with finding data and presenting > it in cool ways.** > > > Second, and highly relevant to this, the Guardian put out its take > couple of days ago: > > <http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/interactive/2009/sep/16/public-spending-larry-elliott> > <http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/sep/16/public-spending-departments-money-cuts> > > This is a really nice visualization. I wonder how it gets done (it > looks so neat that I would guess at least some of it is "by hand"). > > Data is also really good -- it is stated to be IFS (looks to be PESA > plus consolidation of supplementary budget estimates). I've added it > to our data summary page for WDMMG: > > <http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tR5kH6P2dRvC0hl0Ie_adtg> > > Regards, > > Rufus > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
