Show HN: Understanding public spending – 700 tables of data in one diagram

Thanks! The whole project is ver very early beta, we hope that one day the landing page will show data right away, similar to Google Maps. When it comes to the tone, it's not about the administration, I read that as a startup I should "take a stance, don't be neutral". [campfire?]

Thanks!

It's interesting how exposure to certain type of UI/UX can shape our intuition. I see [this type of graph] in Google Analytics on a regular basis, so jumping into this felt very intuitive.

I know what you mean, it's just that after year of research we came to a conclusion that this is the best/only possible way. There are two main problems, 1/ the money flows in multigraph, not a simple tree as many people think, there is no better tool than Sankey for multigraphs. 2/ there are astronomical size differences, the same node can have flows in millions and hundreds right next to each other, the zoomable interface is our best answer. I understand it's unfamiliar but trust me, it's better than 720 tables in PDFs. Also I believe nobody has successful simplified/visualised public finance yet, well maybe except http://demonocracy.info/infographics/eu/debt_greek/debt_gree... :)