[okfn-labs] Code review exchange

Fri Jun 7 17:27:32 UTC 2013

Rad!

So is this the data standard for spending data?
http://openspending.org/resources/standard/index.html

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Anders Pedersen
<anders.pedersen at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi Todd,
>
> Thanks for joining the list - and please shout there when you need help!
>
> Also wanted to point you towards this collection of US state and local
> spending sources, on the Datahub, which might also be worth exploring:
> http://datahub.io/group/us-state-spending-and-revenue-data
>
> We'd love to see some of this added to OpenSpending.
>
> Anders
>
>
> On 7 June 2013 13:02, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com <todd.d.robbins at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Ah! Now I feel the fool, having looked around the site some more. 10 US
>> datasets! Sorry if I came across as xenocentric (nothing wrong if there was
>> a European focus)! Just subscribed to the list and I'll hit you up on IRC.
>>
>> Also, I just found these data feeds from the US Federal Government:
>>
>> http://www.usaspending.gov/data
>>
>> Looks like we can add quite a bit, programmatically even!
>>
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Tryggvi Björgvinsson <
>> tryggvi.bjorgvinsson at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi Todd,
>>>
>>>
>>> On fös 7.jún 2013 15:03, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>> Question: Is OpenSpending primarily European? I don't see much US data in
>>> there. If there hasn't been much of a contribution from Americans in that
>>> regard I can invest some time.
>>>
>>>
>>> No, OpenSpending is not primarily European. The reason there are more
>>> European datasets is probably because of the history of OpenSpending (it
>>> has its roots in British and German projects).
>>>
>>> Our goal is to track all government spending from around the world so if
>>> you want to contribute some data from the US that would be awesome! There
>>> is some data in OpenSpending from the US:
>>> http://openspending.org/datasets?territories=US but that's not nearly
>>> enough ;-)
>>>
>>> Here's a cool project I know of from the States that uses OpenSpending
>>> as a backend:
>>> http://openbudgetoakland.org/
>>>
>>> This is just one of many projects/sites that rely on OpenSpending which
>>> is why we are really firm about doing code reviews.
>>>
>>> I digress. It's awesome if you want to contribute data to OpenSpending.
>>> If you need any help just ask on the openspending mailing list:
>>> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/openspending
>>> or our irc channel #openspending on Freenode. Thanks a lot!
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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