The research topic consists of analysing the budgetary data visualizations in Slovenia, Slovakia, Austria, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic, and determining how the Slovenian portal of graphical budgetary data representation compares to the graphical representations of budgetary data found on the selected web portals. The analysis in this master’s thesis aims to establish whether the principles of budgetary data openness and transparency are applied in a comparable manner. The presentation and research of facts and concepts using foreign and Slovenian literature is based on the descriptive method. The primary data is obtained using the observational method, while the indicators of data openness principles are determined through quantitative methodology. The qualitative method is used to evaluate the degree to which the data is sufficient based on the indicators. The results are explained descriptively. It was discovered that not all portals fulfil the basic openness and transparency requirements. The data representation on the Slovenian portal, The Budget of the Republic of Slovenia, is comparable to the other selected interactive budgetary data visualizations in two ways: it is comparable in the representation of expenditure classification and time series, but not the implementation level. The analytical comparison of the interactive graphical representations of budgetary data in the selected EU countries can aid in discovering the benefits of these graphical representations, which can be used to improve the Slovenian interactive graphical representation. Thus, the research results could be helpful to experts developing interactive portals, as well as to political decision makers in preparing proposals for open data representation.
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