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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Introduction

Before you start to work with your financial data, it’s important to get a feeling for the two key different types of data you may encounter.

While these terms may have different meanings on a country by country basis, it is possible to separate the types of data into two basic types by looking at the political significance and technical differences between the data. In this section, we look briefly at the two different types of data and what questions can be addressed using them.

How to map your budget into COFOG classifications

Working with Budgets and Spending Data

Curriculum

Introduction

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