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Visualizing Statistics In Minecraft

The data on spending by the public sector is often difficult to comprehend and make comparisons. Tables are often used to present statistics on government. In this hack I have utilized open data from Eurostat (the EU statistics agency) on government expenditures for a set of countries and rendered boxes in the Minecraft world. This allows you to study the data by walking (flying) across the globe.

Boxes to store expenditure data are ordered as General public services, Defence, Public order and safety Economic affairs, Environment protection Housing and community amenities Health, Recreation, Culture and religion Education, Social security.

1. (top) Cows eating grass in the vicinity of the UK's budget for "Housing and community amenities". deep space ii

2. Player is standing in front of the expenditure of the government for Malta and looking at Germany:

3. Overview of Germany, France and the UK:

Future plans include making budget deficits appear like holes in the ground, and making it possible for people to enter boxes to see subdivisions. I believe that data for Greece should be rendered as lava.