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Local Business?

This is an experiment in visualising council payments data. We used Redbridge council as a case study, and wanted to illustrate whether the council employs local businesses, or if they use companies based far from the area.

We cycled through their payments data, matching companies with their entries on OpenCorporates.com, then geo-coded the companies' registered offices using MySociety's MaPit and plotted the results on a map.

We found that although many of the businesses were from the local area, most were from the outside. This is really just a starting point for getting a better understanding of the demographics of council economies.

Built by: @symroe and @premasagar
Built at: NESTA, for Make It Local, as part of Rewired State.