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NEW GERS HISTORY VIEWER
Rab Boyce • August 23, 2018
Scotfact releases its latest interactive tool,
The Scotfact GERS History Viewer allows users to see how the Revenue and Expenditure reported in GERS have changed over the last twenty years.
With revenue and expenditure broken down into categories, the user can move the year slider to see the fiscal balance for each year and how each category has increased or fallen from year-to-year.
– Rab.
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NEW AND UPDATED PAGES
Scotfact has updated its data visualisations to help you understand the figures.
To celebrate the first anniversary of its launch, I decided to give Scotfact a face-lift and (hopefully) make it even easier to navigate and expand.