Royal Society of Hackers, Designers & Watchmakers

Given: 1) your current balance and 2) a list of expected income and expenditure and optionally 3) an estimated burn rate (possibly based on historical figures), it should be possible to produce a graph that forecasts how your bank balance should (roughly) change in the future. Sites like wesabe and mint seem to have all the info, but they’re focused on the past, on what you’ve already spent. Sadly there’s not much you can do about that apart from feel guilty, and I’ve yet to find anything that does forecasting well, so I’m pondering putting something together that will produce a bar graph that displays such a forecast, and possibly lets you set targets and maybe even suggest ways to meet them (for example, if you want to break even at the end of the month, then you need to spend -32.50 for the next 23 days…). So far this is a handful of sketches, rants and the least efficient python script ever.