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

Wed Apr 11 16:45:24 UTC 2012

Awesome :)

Will look at it later today! I think the single db entry can be really
cool.

via mobile
Em 11/04/2012 05:32, "Friedrich Lindenberg" <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org>
escreveu:

>  Hey Markun,
>
> great to hear you're getting on!
>
> On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Pedro Markun wrote:
>
> Now it should be working :)
>
>
> http://openspending.org/ribeiraopreto-budget-2011/views/ribeirao-bubbles#/~/total
>
> /note to self: needs colors and more space.
>
> Lucy and all, do you knwo if it is possible to create the dimensions
> mapping programatically?
>
> It is, the whole metadata is basically what you can see here:
> http://openspending.org/ribeiraopreto-budget-2011/model.json - you can
> manipulate it and POST it back to several sub-URLs. Maybe you can tell me
> the specific thing you're doing though and we can work out the best way -
> if you want to do this for 600 municipalities, it may even make sense to
> load them into a single dataset (sao paulo) so you can aggregate (e.g. all
> school spending in the state). This only works if they adhere to a common
> schema, of course.
>
> - Friedrich
>
> []'s
> 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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