2009/6/16 William Waites <[email protected]>: > 2009/6/16 Rufus Pollock <[email protected]>: [...] >> * 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...
Nice idea! This is a bit like something I did recently but with technology flows [1]. In terms of implementation I guess the question is what would be the nodes? Government departments? Specific projects? ... Or, to let the data decide, what data on funding flows is available? > 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... I really like the idea of including the temporal component. PESA (which I mentioned in my previous email) has data going back a decade or so though they have a special note saying that data may not always be comparable. Rufus [1]:<http://www.rufuspollock.org/2009/05/22/visualizing-technology-flows-over-time-i/> -- Join our "100 supporters pledge": http://www.pledgebank.com/support-okfn Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age - http://www.okfn.org/ _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
