Expense Visualizer

In Development

Visualizer for Travel and Hospitality expenses scraped from federal government websites.

As the result of a federal government directive, Travel and Hospitality Expenses have been published on the web in Canada since 2004.  This information is currently spread across 124 different department sites, all publishing the data in subtly different formats.  This project scrapes these expenses from the federal websites into a common format, so that this data can be supplied via an API to external tools and projects interested in using this information.

VisibleGovernment.ca has partnered with Datalicious, a Montreal data visualization firm, to produce a web visualization tool to allow users to:

• compare expenses by department
  
• compare expenses by individual
• compare expenses by time period

We hope that this visualization tool will spark interest across Canada in how open government data can help citizens  become more involved in the workings of their government.

To get involved, join the Google Group for this project.