[OpenSpending] [okfn-br] OpenSpending in Brazil (also the HackerBus)

Tue Apr 10 22:57:51 UTC 2012

Now it should be working :)

http://openspending.org/ribeiraopreto-budget-2011/views/ribeirao-bubbles#/~/total

It's pretty straightforward to get the data there after the python scripts
cleans it up. I'll tweak the script further so it can automatically load
the data onto thedatahub...

Lucy and all, do you knwo if it is possible to create the dimensions
mapping programatically?

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Pedro Markun

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Pedro Markun <pedro at esfera.mobi> wrote:

> Gisele,
>
> the way openspending works once I set data to public I cannot work and
> tweak it anymore. But I'll try to get it cleaned up and avaliable so people
> can follow what I've been doing.
>
> (Basically I'm cleaning and getting the data ready for OpenSpending. Tried
> with Refine and Recline but I'll end up using a custom python script)
>
> []'s
> Pedro Markun
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <
> everton.alvarenga at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Adding professor Gisele email to Open Spending mailing list. We all
>> definitely should discuss this in Brasília and during the meet up with
>> Rufus and Helen Darbishire on the 19th of April, in São Paulo.
>>
>> 2012/4/10 Gisele S. Craveiro <gisele.craveiro at gmail.com>:
>> > Hi everybody,
>> >
>> > Pedro, the link is still not working.
>> >
>> > I also share the same opinion about an activity in order to hack
>> > some data from municipalities. I believe that we should focus
>> > in a local approach, in order to help the ordinay citizen understand
>> > how her/his life is impacted.
>> >
>> > I´d like to say that Edson in TCE-SP is facing great challenges
>> > and doing an excellent job in order to make available financial data
>> from
>> > more than 600 municipalities from São Paulo state (except the capital).
>> > Unfortunately they download/API section has some problems and he´ll
>> > take a while in order to redesing it. By this moment the only and best
>> > alternative is to use the CSV. It will be great to put all datasets
>> (about 600
>> > municip. multiplied by 4 years) in OpenSpending during the Brasilia
>> meeting.
>> >
>> > I´d like also to say that we, from University of São Paulo
>> > are interested to participate, as we are also working with  all these
>> > data. There is
>> > very interesting information but, unfortunately, others are lacking
>> > (even in these CSVs).
>> > It will be very important to have an strategie in order to make
>> > pression for them
>> > (Ministério Público? Lei de Acesso à Informação?). I also have this
>> expectation
>> > for our meeting.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Gisele
>>
>>
>> --
>> Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
>> Open Knowledge Foundation Brasil
>>
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