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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Introduction

Depending on who the audience is for your data, you may want to think about presenting or delivering your data differently.

The Spending Data Handbook covers some important considerations about targeting your data project.

In this chapter, we cover a data conversion technique that the Open Knowledge Foundation employ regularly in order to make data more accessible and (if caution is applied) comparable between countries.

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Working with Budgets and Spending Data

Curriculum

Introduction

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