Resurrecting Budget Navigator Project

[jkonga]

Hi folks - looking forward to tomorrow so I thought I'd take the
opportunity to see if anyone has an interest in resurrecting the
Budget Navigator project from last year - details here
http://www.opendataday.org/wiki/City_Budget_Navigator

We have budget data from Toronto - thanks Reham, Trish and team.
There's also budget data from London and they actually have an app
contest for this data. Anybody interested? Maybe this could be a
collaborative project - DataTO, Open Hamilton, OpenHalton,
OpenLondon .. Ottawa, Montreal - let me know if you're interested
@jkonga or jko...@sympatico.ca

Look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow :-)

Cheers Jury

[Jeremy Albisser]

I created this one a while ago but there doesn't seem to have been much interest.

I would like to update visualization with the new budget and I've tried to map it to a few other cities but would need to have someone map both the departments and expenses groupings.  Until then feel feel to explore the city of Toronto's expenses, budget and ouitlook here:

http://dtsdss.com/?TorontoExpenses

~jba

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Unleash your data.

[Derek Vaz]

(Sorry for the possible double-post - Chrome crashed on me.)

We created this REST-ful API and example visualizations based on the March capital and operating data. It has not been updated as yet to reflect the newly released (Nov) data sets as that budget has yet to be approved. 

We can't make it this weekend but hope this is of some help to all:

http://torontobudget.uprootinc.com/rest

http://torontobudget.uprootinc.com/

Cheers,

Derek

[Derek Vaz]

We created this visualization and REST-ful API earlier this year based
on the budget data released in Spring.

http://torontobudget.uprootinc.com/
http://torontobudget.uprootinc.com/rest

We hope to update it with 2012 data soon but hopefully this can be of
some use.

Unfortunately, our team is busy on client work this weekend and can't
make it out to RHoK. Next time...

Cheers,

Derek
uprootinc.com

On Dec 2, 11:05 am, jkonga <jko...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Hi folks - looking forward to tomorrow so I thought I'd take the
> opportunity to see if anyone has an interest in resurrecting the

> Budget Navigator project from last year - details herehttp://www.opendataday.org/wiki/City_Budget_Navigator

[James McKinney]

Re: Uproot Inc's viz: I remember being excited by the quality of the dataviz. However, I'm not from Toronto, and the numbers aren't terribly important to me. I'm from Montreal, and it'd be great if the code were open-source so people like me in other cities can do this sort of thing, too. It's nice that you offer an API, but the hard part for budget apps isn't getting the data - it's making it understandable. So, I would rather you share code than data.

Re: Jeremy Albisser's dataviz. I think this suggests that transforming the Toronto budget into Google's Dataset Publishing Language would be of interest. Data in that schema can be loaded into Google Public Data Explorer, which allows for the sorts of visualization that Jeremy provides. More info on that schema (DSPL): http://code.google.com/apis/publicdata/docs/developer_guide.html

[Michal Hay]

To have something that demonstrated spending changes across years (IOW cuts) and staff changes, would be neat in this climate..the implications of the numbers too (e.g. pool and rec centre closures, library hour reductions). But it's a lot to try to do.

[Ryan Feeley]

Hi Jury: I am not sure if you saw the design, but this was the
original idea: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5265484/budget-navigator-01.png

A fancier version: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5265484/budget-navigator-02.png

I did these about a year ago. I'm a UX designer and would love to work
with some developers to make this a reality.

On Dec 2, 12:05 pm, jkonga <jko...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Hi folks - looking forward to tomorrow so I thought I'd take the
> opportunity to see if anyone has an interest in resurrecting the

> Budget Navigator project from last year - details herehttp://www.opendataday.org/wiki/City_Budget_Navigator

[Marc Gorcey]

These are interesting approaches.

Is there a list somewhere of budget navigators ?

I have a political discussion group that I'd like to give tools to for this type of thing.

Thanks !

[Michal Hay]

I think someone else sent this out earlier, but just in case here's the operating budget and it includes prior year numbers so you can potentially/maybe see program changes: 

Budget - Operating Budget 2012 Program Summary by Expenditure Category (Recommended)

http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/open_data/open_data_item_details?vgnextoid=b5d90237610f3310VgnVCM1000003dd60f89RCRD&vgnextchannel=6e886aa8cc819210VgnVCM10000067d60f89RCRD