[wdmmg-discuss] Detailed spending data for London

[Alistair Turnbull]

Great stuff, Donny.

A couple of observations:

1. There are at least two different index pages for this data set:

 	http://legacy.london.gov.uk/gla/expenditure/index.jsp
 	http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/greater-london-authority/expenditure-over-1000

You've used the second one, which appears to have an extra four months' 
data. That's probably correct, but it might be worth establishing which 
one is the index that's going to receive best long-term support.

2. Especially for the months without a "Date" column, it would be useful 
to record at least the month in which the spending happened. There seems 
to be no good automatic way of doing this. Looks like a manual job. :-(

 	Alistair

On Wed, 19 May 2010, Donovan Hide wrote:

> Cleaned version here:
>
> http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/show/greater-london-assembly-expenditure/
>
> Seems like the CSV's are prepared manually at the end of the month,
> they are very inconsistent in their formatting!
>
> Cheers,
> Donny,
>
> On 19 May 2010 14:22, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> The Greater London Authority has just made detailed data on
>> expenditure over £1000 available (via the Guardian Data Blog [1]):
>>
>> <http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/greater-london-authority/expenditure-over-1000>
>>
>> Have created a CKAN package:
>>
>> <http://ckan.net/package/gla-spending>
>>
>> And we'll may have a stab at loading this data into a new slice in the
>> data store <http://data.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/>
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>> [1]:<http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/may/19/greater-london-authority-spending-analysis>
>>
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