Monthly Archives: November 2010

In at the deep end: how to get started with COINS Linked Data

A tweet today from … someone?! … alerted me to the fact that COINS data has just been published as Linked Data over on the TSO Open Up Labs website. The documentation is still in the works, and as yet … Continue reading

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Video: a beginners guide to Where Does My Money Go?

With many thanks to Daniel Dietrich who made this possible.

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How to explore government spending over £25,000 on Where Does My Money Go

Today, the UK government published its spending items over £25,000. From now on, every month you’ll be able to see just what each central government department spent, with whom, and when. Exciting stuff – the current government came to power … Continue reading

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Government Spending – Data Explorer

A whole swathe of data may now out there, but how can we start to explore it? Here’s one way, using the Google spreaadsheet versions of the data, at departmental level, as republished on the Guardian DataStore: The application allows … Continue reading

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25k Departmental Spending Data in the Data Store

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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