Open Budget OKC - City Budget Visualizations/Open Data

[mkchandler]

Description

The idea is to open up the city budget data and visualize it in meaningful ways. Here are some visualizations that could be useful:

• Budget Tree Map - allows users to drill in to different areas and see which parts take up the most percentage.
• Cash Flow - a way to see how revenue is mapped to expenses
• Year-to-year Increases/Decreases - which parts of the budget have the biggest increases or decreases year over year.

Another win in this project would be to have the raw budget data available to the public in a machine readable format (probably CSV). Right now it is only available via an Open Records Request.

Project Leads

• Scott Maslar
• Scott Murphy

Discussion/Source

• Slack: #openbudgetokc
• GitHub: https://github.com/codeforokc/openbudgetokc

Additional Details/Links

The main inspiration for this project is Open Budget Oakland. Some other examples:

• US Budget Visualizations by New York Times

  Who will use/benefit from this project?

The target audience will be the residents of Oklahoma City. Both for visualization purposes and the opening of the data.

Project Needs (dev/design/resources)

• D3.js expertise for visualizations
• Designer for web pages and possible logo

  Status

The project is currently in active development.

[mkchandler]

The official repo can be found here: https://github.com/codeforokc/openbudgetokc

All future discussion of features and ideas can be put there. This issue will continue to be open for a high level status of the project.