Looks interesting.. The Oorvani team will be happy to work, for Bangalore budget. Janaagraha has already done some work cleaning up the data. Shree will ping you offline to discuss this more...
Best Regds, Meera On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Nikhil VJ <[email protected]> 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. > -- 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.
