Jure Cuhalev

Slovenian budget is a 12 billion euro monster that most citizens don’t understand or even have remote idea how it’s structured and where does their money go. As it turns out, people are just not good at taking abstract numbers to go into billions and understanding proportions and what it means to spend 50 million [...]

Kiberpipa is a large organization with lots of volunteers. This means that whatever you do, you’ll have organizational problems and you’ll see technology as a way to solve them. To a certain degree of course. A few years ago Boštjan and I saw this as an opportunity to reinvent the wheel and write our [...]

My latest released project is focusing on Visualizing Slovenian IT tax spending (139 million euros), the idea here is to take otherwise meaningless numbers and display them visually in a way that tells a story of who is spending how much and on what. The data set comes directly from the government in semi-clean XLS [...]

Here is a quick reference chart of online visualization tools. It’s here mostly for my reference as I plan to update it as I discover and test new ones that being created almost on daily basis.
In no particular order:

http://verifiable.com/ – Turn any set of numbers into an explanatory picture with Verifiable.com
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/ – Shared visualization and [...]