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

[Ted Strauss]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:21 PM, James McKinney <james at opennorth.ca> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Yes that should be pretty easy. I've converted 1 of 3 excel files to csv,
so I can import that one and see how it goes.


> I'm curious to know which budgets didn't spend as much as allocated. It
> seems like in most cases, those values are equal.
>
> There are many exceptions to that rule you can find. Adding a feature that
treats the difference between allocation and spending as a filterable
quantity would be a good. Let me know of any other ideas or questions that
come to mind.




> 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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> Ted Strauss
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>
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> 6, 2013
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Ted Strauss
Co-founder of Trudat.co

I'm organizing Open Data Exchange <http://odx13.com> in Montreal, April 6,
2013
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