[open-data-day] Using open spending during ODD

[Stéphane Guidoin]

Good to know that we have an Open Spending expert on the list ;)

For some cities (at least Montréal), we do have nice and clean data (I tend
to think that structured data in an ODT spreadsheet is nice and clean). For
some other sources (like the federal level), we will have to manually
gather the data.

Thank you for the link, we will try to see if some people can start working
on this a little in advance.

Steph

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Anders Pedersen <anders.pedersen at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi Stéphane,
>
> Great to hear that you're planning to use Open Spending on Canadian data
> for ODD.
>
> As for your question: You can do a lot in one day, especially if the data
> is nice and clean. I would suggest that you examine the data available as
> well as assess the need for data cleaning beforehand.
>
> Here are a few guides, which may be helpful to prepare the data you have
> retrieved:
> - Both budgetary and transactional data can be stored in Open Spending:
> http://openspending.org/help/types.html
> - How to clean your data before uploading it:
> http://openspending.org/help/data-cleansing.html
>
> We would be glad to help you prepare for the event. Let me know in what
> other ways we can assist.
>
> Best,
> Anders
>
> -
> Anders Pedersen
> Community Coordinator
> Openspending <http://openspending.org/>
> Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/>
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> Skype: anpehej
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Stéphane Guidoin <stephane at opennorth.ca>wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> With some canadian cities hosting an ODD event, we are evaluating to work
>> collaboratively to get some canadian data in Open Spending. At least for
>> cities and eventually for province or federal level.
>>
>> Besides the information available on the open spending page/github, does
>> anybody have some experience in gathering budget and spending data and put
>> them in Open Spending?
>> Could we hope to get something that works within a day of work?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Stéphane
>>
>>
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