The visiualization looks great, giving an interesting insight into the allocation of budget funds. Your work confirms what everyone working in this sector knows, but doesn’t want to admit publicly: The state/goverment has been spending large amounts of taxpayers money for costly licenses instead of investing this money in open-source software, thus, supporting the R&D departments of home IT industry. Yes, there are some examples of good practice also in this field (e.g., the software that was build up for taxation evidence), but I think we should interpret them as exceptions that confirm the general rule.

As your are asking for suggestions, the first two that come to my mind are the following:

- Besides hardware-software dichotomy I would introduce a third category (following what I said above), that is R&D. If you look carefully to the budget of Ministry for Public Administration as well as Tax Administration Office you can notice they will spend a substantial (although still not enough) amount of funds for the development of IS in 2010.
- in analytical (statistical) terms, the next (natural) step would be to run a cluster analysis on this data in order to find out (statistical) similarities/divergences among different budget users.

will we finally get a first-time-ever total state budget visualization as well?

best, b

In tukajle lepo vidiš, kje je poraba storitev najve?ja.

?isto druga?e si je takole zadevo predstavljat. Super!