[CivicAccess-discuss] Canada launches spending database without transactional spending data?

[James McKinney]

Cool, Ted! Would it be possible to add the data to OpenSpending? http://openspending.org/help/data-loading.html It should be straight-forward, and then you immediately benefit from all their visualizations, etc.

I'm curious to know which budgets didn't spend as much as allocated. It seems like in most cases, those values are equal.

James

On 2013-05-30, at 10:56 AM, Ted Strauss wrote:

> Hi all,
> I set up a data browser for the recently released expenditure database.
> Access it here -- http://spenditures.ca
> This is high level budget data. It doesn't include transactions, to answer Anders' question.
> Some budget items are in the 10s of billions, so you could say it's lacking in detail.
> Nonetheless, if you want a big picture of what the government is spending money on, this page can help.
> Ted
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Michael Mulley <michael at michaelmulley.com> wrote:
> (Hi Anders -- am forwarding this to CivicAccess, a Canadian open-data list)
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Anders Pedersen <anders.pedersen at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi all, 
> (sorry for crossposting)
> 
> The Canadian Treasury board this week launched a database on expenditure [1], which received quite a bit of coverage [2]. 
> 
> As far as I can tell, the database does not include any transactional spending data [3], but only expenditure data across programmes, sub-programmes etc.
> 
> I'd be interested to hear if anyone can help shed some light on this and possibly share the reactions from the Canadian open data community? 
> 
> Thanks, 
> Anders
> 
> [1] http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/ems-sgd/aegc-adgc-eng.asp
> [2] http://globalnews.ca/news/502224/new-database-will-allow-canadians-to-track-government-spending-data/
> [3] As for instance released in the UK at http://data.gov.uk/openspending and US at usaspending.gov
> 
> -- 
> Anders Pedersen
> Community Coordinator
> OpenSpending
> Open Knowledge Foundation
> Twitter: @anpe
> Skype: anpehej
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