Visualizing Government Data. Sebastien Pierre, FFunction, ffctn.com

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A 5MIN CASE STUDY OF

VISUALIZING (NON-OPEN)GOVERNMENT DATA

Sébastien Pierre, FFunction inc.@Open Data Exchange 2013

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INFOGRAPHIC : SE7EN SUMMITS


GOOGE DATAVIZ CHALLENGE 2010 (FINALIST)


NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY'S PROJECTS


2012QuébecOuvert

2008ExpenseVisualizer

2010MontréalOuvert


2008Canadian Federal

Travel & HospitalityExpenses


DEPARTMENT

PERSON/ROLE

TRAVEL/HOSPITALITYEXPENSE ($) GUIDELINE ($)


22Mb SQL filescraped by citizens

(available on Github)

https://github.com/visiblegovernment/Expense-Visualizer/tree/master/dataset/






I just found out the 5 top spendingFederal depts, check it out at http://ur1.ca/a3spt




TRENDS ONLY BECOME APPARENTWITH THE PROPER MODE OF REPRESENTATION

Cumulative spending

Monthly spending


PROBLEMS IN THE DATA QUALITYBECOME VISIBLE


Spending of ministers for all departments

THINGS YOU WOULD EXPECTARE NOT NECESSARILY THERE


Spending of ministers for all departments

... BUT IS THIS DUE TO THE DATA ORDO FEW MINISTERS FILE EXPENSES?


SCRAPED DATA

IS NOTOPEN DATA

TIME CONSUMING

NO QUALITY ASSESSMENT

FEW/NO UPDATES


SCRAPED DATA

IS NOTOPEN DATA

Scraped data cannot beused for analysis, andthe development effortcan be wasted if thedata is not published later.


CHICKEN & EGGDo we have to wait for open-data to be published, or do we go ahead with scraped data?

CONTINUITYIf so, will the government commit to opening up the data if an application is built by citizens on their own free time?

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Visualizing Government Data. Sebastien Pierre, FFunction, ffctn.com