Antoine Béland, Florent Daudens and Thomas Hurtut
Article (2023)
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Abstract
Understanding and consuming public budget data is a key issue, helping citizens in gaining insight into their democratic and political systems. The goal of this work is to present Waffster, a user-friendly representation supporting the understanding of such data. The proposed representation enables the browsing, searching, comparing, and presenting of the hierarchically arranged components and quantities in budgets. In this paper, we first conduct a thorough survey of online public budget visualizations. Then, in collaboration with Le Devoir, a Canadian daily newspaper, we propose a novel unit-based hierarchical design based on waffle charts. We evaluate this design using a controlled user study to compare it to a tree-map based layout, and a case study conducted with Le Devoir during the provincial election campaign in Québec of 2018.
Uncontrolled Keywords
public budget; data visualization; design study
Subjects: | 2500 Electrical and electronic engineering > 2500 Electrical and electronic engineering |
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Department: | Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering |
Funders: | NSERC / CRSNG |
PolyPublie URL: | https://publications.polymtl.ca/53776/ |
Journal Title: | Information Visualization (vol. 22, no. 4) |
Publisher: | Sage Publications |
DOI: | 10.1177/14738716231173730 |
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1177/14738716231173730 |
Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2023 16:30 |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2025 05:08 |
Cite in APA 7: | Béland, A., Daudens, F., & Hurtut, T. (2023). Waffster: hierarchical waffle charts for budget visualization. Information Visualization, 22(4), 279-290. https://doi.org/10.1177/14738716231173730 |
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