[OpenSpending-discuss] How Spending Stories Spots Errors in Spending Data

[Lucy Chambers]

How do readers know that the numbers quoted in news stories about spending 
are correct? As part of the work on Spending Stories, the OpenSpending team 
have been working on creating a wiki-like system that lets the user scroll 
back, trace and reproduce changes made to the dataset every step of the 
way, from initial data release to visualisation. 

You can read about this work, illuminated by a recent case study involving 
questions from the UK Treasury about reliability of records in UK official 
spending data that we had published, in the MediaShift Idea Lab: 

http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2011/12/how-spending-stories-spots-errors-in-public-spending328.html

The post is cross posted on the OpenSpending blog<http://blog.openspending.org/2011/12/05/how-spending-stories-spots-errors-in-public-spending/>
. 

Lucy

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Lucy Chambers 
Community Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation 
http://okfn.org/
Skype: lucyfediachambers
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