Interactive Tbilisi 2010 Budget Treemap

With all the dialog surrounding Tbilisi's 2012 draft budget, we thought we'd try some new ways to show how the city has been spending your money.

Today we present the treemap. This treemap shows Tbilisi's 2010 budget summary. The source of this data is City Hall's website here.

In our example here, each rectangle represents a category of the 2010 budget expenditures, while the area represents the amount spent for that category.

There are two levels. The main or top level are the main ten categories. When you click on that category, you will see the components of that category, also rendered in rectangles of varying sizes corresponding to the amount of your money that was spent.

We would have liked to show you more levels, but unfortunately, City Hall has stated that they do not have the capacity to share that level of detail at this time. Perhaps in the future there will be more information about how City Hall spends your money, but until then ...