MPs' expenses: how we visualised the data

MPs' expenses is the data story of the week - and the Datablog obsession, of course. And now, Labour and Tory politicians are getting charged over their expenses claims . Yesterday the full expenses claims for all MPs in 2008-09 were released. This is how we visualised the news and the claims - click on the image above for the big picture. You can download it as a pdf here, too. Download the data • DATA: download the full datasheet with all allowances and travel breakdown • DATA: Function room bookings World government data • Search the world's government with our gateway Can you do something with this data? Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at [email protected] • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter