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OpenSpending Monthly Update (beginning of December 2016)
OpenSpending is one of Open Knowledge International’s current projects. It is a free and open platform for citizens looking to track and analyze public fiscal information globally. Last month we...
View Article[request] Detailed US budget data
Dear OKFN community I am looking for detailed data US budget data similar to the UK OSCAR database that provides gigabites of detailed data in several dimensions. The data used to calculate the US...
View ArticleGood Crawling Scripts
The Canadian Government has to post their spending data in a format like this. This isn’t like a nice machine parse-able format. Someone must have published a script to take pages like this and...
View ArticleOpen Spending vs Open Contracting
How does this site differ from what is being done at the Open Contracting Partnership Seems like there is a lot of overlap. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
View ArticleBig Lottery - philanthropic organisations
I noticed that there are transactions data from the BIG Lottery https://openspending.org/big-lottery-fund-grants?_view=default Given that BIG is a philanthropic organisation strictly speaking it is...
View ArticleSubsidyStories.eu now live
Open Knowledge International and Open Knowledge Germany just launched SubsidyStories.eu - a database containing all recipients and projects of EU Structural Funds, accounting for 292,9 Billion Euros...
View ArticleSpotlight on Spending Data
This year, OpenSpending team will focus on spending data. Why is that? As it turns out, spending data is somewhat like shy species - it’s definitely out there, hiding in the thickets of federal and...
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Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove
nytimes.com – 18 Apr 17 Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove (Published 2017) A stealthy pet project by the former Microsoft chief lets you search and learn about how the government spends...
View ArticleCSOs in the Balkans working with fiscal data
Happy Labour Day everyone. I’m searching for CSOs active in the Balkans who already work with fiscal data or intent to do so. My goal is to get an overview of how many fiscal data active/interested...
View ArticleAt re:publica this evening
Re:publica is kicking off today. With @OKFDE, we are presenting our collaboration project subsidystories.eu this evening. Come and visit us at #rp17...
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Budget, spending, procurement - what's the difference?
So as you might have noticed - working with fiscal data is not a cake walk. During our GODI review as well as in our daily encounters with journalists, activists or even government officials, there is...
View ArticleData modelling/structure decisions
How would you recommend handlng these data modelling/structure/packaging issues in OpenSpending? I know it’s a few different issues that may be better treated as distinct topics, but they all relate...
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Budget per country per year pie chart
I’d like to use the openspending api to allow users to view pie-charts for county budgets for a given year, allowing them to drilldown by clicking on the relevant pie slice for sub-categories. Similar...
View ArticleOpenSpending platform update
Hi everyone, Two weeks ago, the OpenSpending team soft-launched an updated technical platform that has the Fiscal Data Package at its core. Read @pwalsh’s detailed post about it here: OpenSpending...
View ArticleGrants data in OpenSpending?
Hi all, I’m curious to know whether anyone is publishing grants data into OpenSpending? That is, specific programs of government that give away chunks of money to community groups, businesses etc,...
View ArticleScript BOOST data --> OpenSpending
Hi, Does anyone know if there’s some script available to import WB Boost budget data into OpenSpending or the best way to do it is manual ? @adam.kariv have you import some more datasets than the...
View ArticleFiscal Data Package v1.0 Smith Family example
I’m trying to implement FDP using the v1.0 RC spec: https://github.com/frictionlessdata/specs/blob/feature/fdp-v1/specs/fiscal-data-package.md In it, it refers to the Smith Family example. Is there a...
View ArticleVersion 1 of the Fiscal Data Package specification released!
Dear all, We are happy to share the news with you that we have released version 1 of the Fiscal Data Package specification. This is a lightweight and user-oriented format for publishing and consuming...
View ArticleEnd of Life for OpenSpending v2 and Where Does My Money Go
Hi everyone, We’d like to announce that on August 1st 2018 the OpenSpending v2 website and API will be shut down. Please migrate any data you rely on from the v2 API to OpenSpending v3, also known as...
View ArticleDataset for All African Countries
Hello, I am current working at BBC’s Visual Journalism team. I think the data that the project provides is an interesting dataset for our audience. Where can I download the dataset for African...
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Data type help needed for fiscal open data
Required help for setting data type for visualization of open data Here it is format of our data but problem in setting data types in visulization Fiscal year: 2017-2018, service : sport and country...
View Article"An error occurred while transferring the file" - could you help?
I encountered a problem. I had setup OpenSpending platform in my machine. (setup OpenSpending platform by Docker containers via Docker Compose) When I try to upload a file in “packager/provide-data”...
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Fiscal Data Package versus XBRL?
Hi! At Open State Foundation we’re reviewing different standards to see if they can be used to represent (aggregated) financial data of governments (budget and spending to be exact. We were mostly...
View ArticleOff for the holidays
The OpenSpending team will be spending some time with their loved ones from December 21st to January 2nd. This means we will take some more time to respond to inquiries. Happy holidays everyone! 1...
View ArticleUpdating an existing dataset
Hello, I have published a fiscal dataset on OpenSpending a while ago. There’s new data available this year which I want to add. I want to keep the ID since the dataset is being used in other projects....
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