[OpenSpending] openspending Digest, Vol 30, Issue 13

Fri Jun 29 11:09:52 UTC 2012

Thanks Lucy,

I'm cleaning up and formatting a rather complex dataset for OpenSpending at
the moment and that's very helpful - particularly the date formatting
issue, which seems like a common stumbling block.

The reminder about documenting your data cleaning is a nice touch too.

Cheers,
Dan

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> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:21:08 +0100
> From: Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>
> Subject: [OpenSpending] New Documentation for OpenSpending + Spending
>        data    Manual
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> Hi All,
>
> We've been asked quite a few times recently how to format data for
> OpenSpending. Just a quick note to say that we have revamped a lot of the
> help documentation.
>
> Some guidance on data-cleansing, including common mistakes, and notes on
> 'what too much cleansing?' is can be found here:
>
> http://openspending.org/help/data-cleansing.html
>
> More guides including detailed walkthroughs in re-formatting sample data,
> common tips and tricks for formatting financial data and in-depth guidance
> on how to build your own site such as Where Does My Money Go? will be
> launched in the coming weeks with the release of the Cameroon Budget site.
>
> Hope this is helpful,
>
> Lucy
>
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> Community Coordinator,
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> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:33:53 -0300
> From: Pedro Markun <pedro at esfera.mobi>
> Subject: Re: [OpenSpending] New Documentation for OpenSpending +
>        Spending        data Manual
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> Awesome stuff :)
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> []'s
> Pedro Markun
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> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > We've been asked quite a few times recently how to format data for
> > OpenSpending. Just a quick note to say that we have revamped a lot of the
> > help documentation.
> >
> > Some guidance on data-cleansing, including common mistakes, and notes on
> > 'what too much cleansing?' is can be found here:
> >
> > http://openspending.org/help/data-cleansing.html
> >
> > More guides including detailed walkthroughs in re-formatting sample data,
> > common tips and tricks for formatting financial data and in-depth
> guidance
> > on how to build your own site such as Where Does My Money Go? will be
> > launched in the coming weeks with the release of the Cameroon Budget
> site.
> >
> > Hope this is helpful,
> >
> > Lucy
> >
> > --
> > Lucy Chambers
> > Community Coordinator,
> > OpenSpending <http://openspending.org/> & Data Journalism<
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/data-driven-journalism>
> > Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/>
> > Skype: lucyfediachambers
> > Twitter: @lucyfedia <https://twitter.com/#%21/lucyfedia>
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> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:30:07 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>
> Subject: [OpenSpending] Spending Events @ OKFestival
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> Hi All,
>
> Just a quick update about a few spending-related event happening this year
> at OKFestival in Helsinki (http://okfestival.org/) - a hackday on Budget
> Cycle Monitoring.
>
> THE PROBLEM
>
> We're aware that often, the only way to check *whether* governments are
> releasing financial documents *when* they should is often tricky to gauge.
> At present, the only way to find out when to expect a document to be
> released in a given country is to trawl the legislation of a country and
> find references to legally mandated release dates, but there may be another
> way...
>
> A POSSIBLE SOLUTION?
>
> At OKFestival, there will be a 'Budget Cycle Monitoring Hackday' - to
> build a prototype of a calendar and set of notification services to help
> journalists, budget-monitoring NGOs etc find out when certain documents
> should be released and demand that they are.
>
> Mission: To align a calendar of internationally-recognised best practice
> guidelines for publication of key budget documents with calendars of the
> fiscal year in different countries and build services which can relate to
> this. Possible features include:
>
> 1. The ability to send out notifications to journalists, CSOs, budget
> monitoring orgs at the last acceptable date for the docs to be published to
> check whether they are available.
> 2. Integrating with FOI request services to allow organisations to have a
> mechanism to request budget documents directly. For example, autogenerated
> FOI letters processed through services such as Alaveteli.
>
> HOW YOU CAN HELP:
>
> On the day - join us!
>
> In advance - I'm particularly keen to hear from those on the list who work
> monitoring budgets (or topics which also rely on budget transparency - such
> as aid), whether such a tool would be useful - and any features that they
> would like to see included.
>
> More information can be found here:
> http://openspending.org/blog/2012/06/28/OKFest-announce.html
>
> Let me know what you think!
>
> Lucy
>
>
> --
> Lucy Chambers?
> Community Coordinator,?
> OpenSpending & Data Journalism
> Open Knowledge Foundation?
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> Twitter: @lucyfedia
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