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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew open data portal for U.S. Treasury data - http://treasury.io/
http://treasury.io/[font size="+1"]From the home page:[/font]
[font size="+1"]The data[/font]
Every day at 4pm, the United States Treasury publishes data tables summarizing the cash spending, deposits, and borrowing of the Federal government. These files catalog all the money taken in that day from taxes, the programs, and how much debt the government took out to make it happen. It comes from a section of the U.S. Treasury called the Financial Management Service
At a time of record fiscal deficits and continual debates over spending, taxation, and the debt, this daily accounting of our government's main checking account is an essential data point that the public should have ready access to.
[font size="+1"]Original data format[/font]
The Treasury told us in response to a Freedom of Information Act Request that it does not store this data in any format other than inconsistently structured text files that don't lend themselves to programmatic analysis.
[font size="+1"]New data format[/font]
We have created the first-ever electronically-searchable database of the Federal government's daily cash spending and borrowing. It updates daily and the data can be exported in various formats and loaded into a variety of systems. It is also 100% open source and free to use. We started the project at the Columbia and Stanford Bi-Coastal Datafest Hackathon and continued the it with support from a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Code Sprint Grant.
We want to make it easy for people to search, explore, and visualize how the government spends their tax dollars.
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New open data portal for U.S. Treasury data - http://treasury.io/ (Original Post)
tk2kewl
Oct 2014
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annabanana
(52,791 posts)1. Very bookmarked!. . .n/t
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)3. Open source everything! Baby!
it can't come soon enough!
annabanana
(52,791 posts)2. much interest = instant overload!. . . n/t
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)4. I'm rec'ing my own post, 'cause this is very good thing
a good start