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Asking For Help When I Needed To Better Understand The Accounting At Play -
As I was working my way through the data for the US federal budget, I noticed a special row in between the years 1976 and 1977. It simply had the entry TQ, and no other information available about what it was.
To get an answer regarding what this entry was, I went to my Twitter followers:
Open Data and APIs Mean Nothing If You Do Nothing With It - None of this open data and APIs mean anything if we cannot actually do something with it. I have the data here, it has been liberated and evolved beyond the spreadsheets the OMB and White House published. What now? This is just the beginning...
The Limitations of Google Spreadsheets When Using To Deploy APIs - Google Spreadsheet provides a great way to quickly manage datasets, and using cloud services like APISpark, you can then also use to publish APIs. However there are some limitations to this approach you ahve to be aware of going into all of this.
Cleaning Up 58 Spreadsheets To Better Understand The Government Budget - After you download 58 spreadsheets, and upload them to Google Spreadsheets, you begint o get a better look at what is involved with understanding how our government spends.
Begin With a Meaningful Project - The US Federal Budget - I wanted a meaningful project to kick off my Adopta.Agency work, something I have been wanting to see done for a while. When the White House released the budget, I worked to make machine readable, and I was pleased to find a list of spreadsheets available for the most recent budget.
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