Working with Budgets and Spending Data

Curriculum

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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International Comparisons

While we’re always warning people about making comparisons between countries (data not being collected in the right way etc lalala), these classifications using COFOG are quite often used to make international comparisons. OECD do it regularly, so it’s probably one of the less-evil ways to do it, in case you’re interested in that type of thing.

Grouping budgets and spending by topics people care about

Working with Budgets and Spending Data

Curriculum

International Comparisons

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