[OpenSpending] USA Spending (or a slice) into OpenSpending

Thu Jul 12 21:58:02 UTC 2012

Hi Kaitlin,

To follow our chat today in person :-)

It would be great to get some portion of USA spending data into
OpenSpending. Starting point would be USASpending.gov data, see:

http://usaspending.gov/data
http://datahub.io/dataset/usa-spending

You guys at Sunlight already extract the data as part of the
InfluenceExplorer. Your suggestion was first to have a dig in the Data
Dictionary:

<http://usaspending.gov/sites/all/themes/usaspendingv2/Archives_Data_Feeds_Data_Dictionary.pdf>

And then decide what are the key fields. We can then get a dump,
extract a sample and try loading it.

Rufus