Data
The atlas reads 36 budget speeches, 15 years of them, in English and Tamil. They are all below, as published, plus the datasets the pipeline derives from them. Take any of it.
1Source speeches
Government of Tamil Nadu publications. Election years carry two budgets — an interim one before the vote and a full one after, sometimes from different governments.
2021-22 DMK · M. K. Stalin 346 announcements
- English · interim ↗ presented before the election
- தமிழ் · interim ↗ presented before the election
- English · revised ↗ presented by the incoming government
- தமிழ் · revised ↗ presented by the incoming government
2016-17 AIADMK · J. Jayalalithaa 328 announcements
- English · interim ↗ presented before the election
- தமிழ் · interim ↗ presented before the election
- English · revised ↗ presented by the incoming government
- தமிழ் · revised ↗ presented by the incoming government
2011-12 AIADMK · J. Jayalalithaa 286 announcements
- English · interim ↗ presented before the election
- தமிழ் · interim ↗ presented before the election
- English · revised ↗ presented by the incoming government
- தமிழ் · revised ↗ presented by the incoming government
2Derived datasets
Each record carries its source document, page, paragraph and a verbatim quote, so anything here can be traced back to the sentence it came from.
- items.json every announcement, with amounts, sectors, geocodes and quotes
- projects.json announcements threaded into projects across years
- years.json per-year totals split by allocation, project cost and investment
- area_items.json district → the announcements that name it
- districts.json district list, both the 32- and 38-district eras
- year_docs.json the source list above, as data
Licence. The derived datasets are released under CC BY 4.0 — use them for anything, including commercially, as long as you credit the source. Suggested attribution:
Budget Atlas — Dravidian Urbanism (dravidianurbanism.com), CC BY 4.0. Derived from Government of Tamil Nadu budget speeches.
The underlying speeches are government publications and carry their own terms. Boundary geometry comes from the datameet community shapefiles and place names from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), both of which ask for their own credit if you redistribute the geodata.