I prefer rectangles over circles, for the ease of reading. You may want to consider Treemaps? Something like https://www.whitehouse.gov/interactive-budget ? Thanks for sharing.
On Monday, August 10, 2015 at 12:41:24 PM UTC+5:30, Nikhil VJ wrote: > > Hi Friends, > > Would you be interested in collaborating to visualize a city's budget data? > > Here's something I drummed up last year when analyzing electrical related > expenditures, in a very quick-and-dirty d3.js mashup: > > http://nikhilsheth.techydudes.net/files/sunburst%20hover%20details%20csv.html > > > This was made possible by introducing a "parent" code column in the data. > A CSV with this basic structure: > Code, Parent Code, Amount, [more details] > ..then yields a variable-depth data visualization. > > For your reference, here's the data powering the above viz: > http://nikhilsheth.techydudes.net/files/electrical5.csv > > This year, I have the whole annual budget of Pune in spreadsheet form > (*http://tiny.cc/punebudget2015 > <http://tiny.cc/punebudget2015>)*, ready for a little cleanup and > curating, after which we could make a data visualization of each of its > sections. > > The tasks involved can go beyond my individual bandwidth and jugaadu > programming abilities, but with a few more people on board we could pull > off something cool. So looking for collaborators : both in visualization > programming (lets explore more ways of visualizing!), as well as for the > simple and repetitive but necessary tasks of cleaning up, curating the > data, for which you only need basic excel skills and that most precious > resource: time! > > Where this could go, in the larger context : Possibility of a buy-in from > the Pune Municipal Corporation to incorporate this as a e-budget, > e-governance, smart city feature. But please don't lynch me if this doesn't > happen.. no certainty here. At least we (CEE) have met the municipal > commissioner (for another topic: budget restructuring) and have talked > about this on the side. A good proof-of-concept would really help to make a > strong case for this. > > -- > Cheers, > Nikhil > +91-966-583-1250 > Pune, India > Self-designed learner at Swaraj University < > http://www.swarajuniversity.org> > http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in > > > > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
