{"id":2443,"date":"2017-05-27T04:14:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T04:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2017-05-27T04:14:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T04:14:31","slug":"curious-to-know-about-your-governments-spendings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/2017\/05\/27\/curious-to-know-about-your-governments-spendings\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious to know about your governments spending’s?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a citizen of a country and a tax payer one should always be curious to know how their government is spending. Usually, government spending includes all government consumption, investment, and transfer payments.<\/p>\n

Every government releases their annual expenditure report and few of their visualizations\u00a0can be misleading. Let me introduce to a viz called packed bubble chart, the size of the bubble represents the scale of a metric.\u00a0Simply, larger the bubbles – \u00a0larger the values.<\/p>\n

Image 1.0 is a reference to a government’s spending in a year. They have spent close to $3.7 Trillion, yes it’s trillion it involves 12 zeros. That’s the huge amount spent by a government body,\u00a0you could put 8.33 million people through all four years of college with $1 Trillion.<\/p>\n

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Image 1.0 – Expenses Viz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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There are multiple drawbacks of this visualization, the amount spent varies by a scale that is thousands, millions, and billions. In image 1.0, all the expenditure are plotted on a single scale, it’s quite hard to visualize\u00a0or know what kind of expense it is? The expenses which are in thousands\u00a0or millions look quite small on this chart.<\/p>\n

Secondly, targetted audience\u00a0should\u00a0be\u00a0analyzed\u00a0before\u00a0preparing a dashboard. In\u00a0this case, an FP&A\u00a0(Financial planning and analysis) head will like\u00a0to have\u00a0a\u00a0bird’s\u00a0eye view. Where an HR\u00a0manager\u00a0would\u00a0focus on\u00a0headcount\u00a0expenses. So, it’s better\u00a0to who\u00a0are\u00a0your\u00a0targetted audience in advance.is no category of expense, such as defense, administration etc.<\/p>\n

There is no proper segmentation of departments. For an instance, there are multiple defense expenses and they all scattered. It’s quite tough to compare the overall drop or increase in defense\u00a0segment.<\/p>\n

The red color in the viz denotes that it has the highest drop in expense compared to last year. There is quite a long range of colors used and it’s difficult for us to interpret them in numbers.<\/p>\n

How can we make this viz better?<\/p>\n

Creating segments of expenses and form clusters to group them together. Legends should have only three to four to distinguish the scale of expenses so we can simply classify. Prepare dashboards based on targeted\u00a0audience and restrict them to their\u00a0respective departments to be accesed.<\/p>\n

Source of the article: https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/490822059366478830<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a citizen of a country and a tax payer one should always be curious to know how their government is spending. Usually, government spending includes all government consumption, investment, and transfer payments. Every government releases their annual expenditure report and few of their visualizations\u00a0can be misleading. Let me introduce to a viz called packed … Continue reading Curious to know about your governments spending’s?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"nsanka","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/author\/nsanka\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"As a citizen of a country and a tax payer one should always be curious to know how their government is spending. Usually, government spending includes all government consumption, investment, and transfer payments. Every government releases their annual expenditure report and few of their visualizations\u00a0can be misleading. Let me introduce to a viz called packed…","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions\/2466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}