Working with Budgets and Spending Data

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4 Sections
20 Lessons
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Categorization and reference data
Need to put your data on a map but it doesn't contain Latitude and Longitude values? Read on!
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Choosing an audience and classifying your data
Sometimes you will need to classify your financial data, for example, to reflect services that people care about or to conform to internationally recognised standards.
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What is the difference between budgets and spending?
Before we begin working with the data, let's take a closer look at the difference between budgets and spending data - what questions is it possible to answer with this data?
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Cleaning spending data
A quick introduction to why spending data often needs cleaning, following into a recipe for cleaning spending data with Open Refine.
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De-jargonising COFOG

Let’s face it, the terminology used by the government is often not the most appealing, or illustrative from the point of view of the user. Hence, for the Where Does My Money Go Project, we specifically de-jargonised it, and translated the terms into friendly forms that we felt were more accessible to the average user. For example: ‘Executive and legislative organs, financial and fiscal affairs, external affairs’ became ‘Top level government’. You can take a look at how we mapped them on to one-another in this Google Doc.

International Comparisons

Working with Budgets and Spending Data

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De-jargonising COFOG

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