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
>
>
>
>

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