Projects/Where Does My Money Go/Prototype

= Notes on the Prototype =

These miscellaneous notes are separate from user comments, and are intended as background for newcomers to the project.

Observations in the data
Interesting observations, which could be use cases for deep-linked interactive graphics. We should find more of these as we look into more detailed data:


 * There is a spike in environmental spending in the North West over the last 3 years - this can be traced directly to Sellafield.
 * Spending priorities in London are heavily skewed towards Law and Order, Housing and Transport
 * Economic Affairs is a good place to look for regional comparisons between spending on miscellaneous infrastructure (transport, agricultural subsidies etc)
 * Spending within housing and community amenities has almost tripled since 2003, with emphasis on social housing and water supply.
 * Health care spending has almost doubled in real terms since 1999.

Prototype Views
This document was used to generate views for the prototype. Colored notes indicate what has been changed.




 * 1) The time series showing regional spending by function was replaced with bar charts comparing regions for each function. Time series regional spending appears in regional drill-down.
 * 2) Spending by economic category and local authority spending were not included.
 * 3) Cartograms were abandoned in the end, as we were able to get more information out of the indexed column graphs.

There is also a functional spec and a breakdown of the spreadsheets we used, available from iconomical on request.