Guardian: Google Maps reveals disparity in neighbouring MPs’ expenses claims
Saturday, 4 April 2009, 05:42 via Delicious/martinstabe
"A Guardian project using Google Maps has revealed differences of up to £20,000 in neighbouring MPs' travel expenses. ... The MPs' travel expenses data was transformed into an easy-to-read Google Map by Tony Hirst, a lecturer at the Open University and Guardian reader. He picked up the figures from the paper's website as part of Data Store, the Guardian's unique experiment in allowing its readers access to key sets of data." Read More...
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