City of Sacramento: Data Visualization of 2015-16 Budget

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City of Sacramento: Data Visualization of 2015-16 Budget #2

Closed roughani closed 8 years ago

roughani commented 9 years ago

On May 6, 2015, the City of Sacramento expressed interest in us producing a data visualization tool based on their 2015-16 Fiscal Year Proposed Budget. See Open Spending, Open Budget Oakland, and the U.S. Budget Visualization for examples.

Please note that there may be an updated dataset based on the 2015-16 Approved Budget that will go into effect on July 1, 2015. Learn more about the city's budget process.

rjulian commented 9 years ago

We discussed tonight that this project will be the focus of the June 24th meetup! Joel discussed the possibility of doing it in R and Shiny.

joelrip commented 9 years ago

A number of the fields/values in the city budget data are unclear and could use clarification from the city to help people who are trying to understand/visualize them.

How should we think about the Object Class titled "Labor and Supply Offset"? Is it appropriate to include these negative amounts when calculating the size of a department's budget?
What is the large negative amount in the "Non-Appropriated" department?

I'm sure other questions will come to me, but just trying to get them down so we can ask Mrudul.

joelrip commented 9 years ago

When looking at the City Attorney budget, there is no way to separate out litigation expenses from other expenses. What categorization is this? Can we get this?

Also: we should really have the FTEs available to us as well.