Mapping the money.

Our aim is to track every government financial transaction across the world and present it in useful and engaging forms for everyone from a school-child to a data geek.

 

How to decrypt a budget? 22.01.2013

If you’ve ever read, or even better tried to explain a budget you’ll be completely aware that budgets are jargon fests. This would be fine if the budget was just for people who know the...

OpenSpending community member identifies unredacted private transactions in UK local public spending data 09.01.2013

A freelance data specialist from our community recently got in touch to let us know that he had used OpenSpending to identify a number of privacy breaches in an individual dataset presented in OpenSpending. This...

An Open Call for Ideas - How Would You Use OpenSpending's Data Calendar? 08.01.2013

With the new year upon us, it's the time of year when you might be thinking about the calendars you use and wondering how they could work better for you. Just over a month ago,...