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Tools and Projects

Here are resources that have helped or inspired our work so far. Soon, we'll relaunch this page as a wiki so people can more easily contribute. For now, send us links. As you explore the list below and see how others are making budgets more accessible, feel free to suggest features for Open Budget.

Budget visualization resources

  • OpenSpending
  • D3
  • Peter Krantz
  • Jim Vallandingham

Budget data resources

  • Spending Data Handbook
  • A data standard for transaction-level spending data
  • Oakland Budget Explorer

Budget visualization examples

Cities

  • My Money NYC
  • Checkbook NYC
  • Palo Alto
  • Honolulu
  • Berlin
  • Philadelphia
  • Long Beach

Counties

  • Look at Cook

States

  • California Budget Challenge
  • Massachusetts Budget Simulator
  • Washington Governor's Proposed 2013-15 Budget

Countries

  • US Budget spending 2011 (US)
  • Where Did My Tax Dollars Go? (US)
  • Obama’s 2013 Budget Proposal
  • Where Does My Money Go? (UK)
  • Statsbudgeten 2013 (Sweden)
  • OffenerHaushalt.de (Germany)
  • Cameroon Budget Inquirer
  • Slovakia's Municipal Budgets
  • Budget Stories (Moldova)

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