Visualization of budget data : Study based on Kenyan government annual budgets
Macharia, Silas (2015)
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2015
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015120419374
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015120419374
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The purpose of this thesis is to provide insight into the importance of visualization of spending and budget data and to find the best techniques and methods that can be used to effectively visualize financial data. The Kenyan government budget data has been used in the study to illustrate the benefits of visualization of financial data in a way that makes it easy to understand.
The data used in the study focuses only on five government ministries showing budget allocation to the sectors in six financial budget years. Different methods have been used in the study in order to demonstrate different perspectives of visualizing budget data. Also examples of applications and projects done by different organizations and people about spending and budget data have been discussed.
The radial bubble tree, the tree map and combination charts have been used in the study to illustrate the different ways in which budget and spending data can be visualized to bring out differences, to show trends in spending over the years or to enable users to easily see where too much or very little has been spent. This makes it interesting and easy for a/the target audience to understand the meaning of financial budget reports.
The data used in the study focuses only on five government ministries showing budget allocation to the sectors in six financial budget years. Different methods have been used in the study in order to demonstrate different perspectives of visualizing budget data. Also examples of applications and projects done by different organizations and people about spending and budget data have been discussed.
The radial bubble tree, the tree map and combination charts have been used in the study to illustrate the different ways in which budget and spending data can be visualized to bring out differences, to show trends in spending over the years or to enable users to easily see where too much or very little has been spent. This makes it interesting and easy for a/the target audience to understand the meaning of financial budget reports.