Author Archives: Rufus Pollock

Open Spending Meeting Minutes 2011-02-10

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Rufus Pollock

Participants Rufus Pollock Friedrich Lindenberg Stefan Wehrmeyer Nadia El imam Stefan marsiske Agenda Previous meetings: http://wdmmg.okfnpad.org/meetings Updates Becoming OpenSpending http://okfnpad.org/openspending http://wiki.openspending.org/Status_2011-02-10 Currently interested countries, cities, places Immediate tasks Why is it hard to get data … Because gov have it … Continue reading →

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25k Departmental Spending Data in the Data Store

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Rufus Pollock

The UK government has just released details of departmental spending over 25k and it has all been loaded into the data store: 25k Departmental Spending Data in the Where Does My Money Go? Data Store As a sample of the … Continue reading →

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Where Does My Money Go? Spending Explorer using Protovis and jQuery

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Rufus Pollock

Over the last couple of months I’ve been playing around with Protovis in my spare time to create an interactive pure javascript Government Spending Explorer for Where Does My Money Go? (datastore api): Explorer: http://rufuspollock.org/wdmmg/explorer.html Source: http://bitbucket.org/okfn/wdmmg-js/src/tip/src/explorer.html Warning: won’t work … Continue reading →

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Alpha Version of the Budgetizer

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Rufus Pollock

We’ve just put out the alpha of a simple interactive tool — the ‘Budgetizer’ that let’s you explore what has been happening to UK finances in recent years, and what the impact of recent budgets have been. To do this … Continue reading →

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Visualizar ‘09

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Rufus Pollock

The project presentations from last month’s Visualizar seminar have now been posted online. This annual event brought together creative teams from a range of disciplines, with the objective of delivering workable presentations using freely available data resources. The theme for 2009 was Public Data – Data In Public. I was fortunate enough to attend on [...]

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