Thursday, February 26, 2009

Interactive Budgeting

I had a conversation today about making the city's budgeting process more accessible to the public, and was shown this link from the Kansas DOT as an example. I think it's pretty cool, and a type of tool that could be really useful in some of the conversations that are bound to happen more often as the economy struggles to get back on its feet. 

What do you think works well? What would you change?




1 comment:

  1. That's pretty cool. I think it'd be more useful and insightful if they allowed the entire panel of sliders to be shown in 1 page, rather than the linear fashion that they have.
    Also, I think it's a bit too flashy, with the phony animation in the graphs that really don't serve a purpose other than to have the user say, "that's neat."
    Big Question: Where are the maps?

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