Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 SPENDING STORIES Get involved and create your own! Anne-Lise Bouyer COO & project manager of Journalism++ Anne-Lise Bouyer COO and project manager of Journalism++ We are an agency for data driven storytelling We accompany newsrooms in their transitions towards the web of data Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // PLAN ● The Spending Stories project ○ Why this project ○ How does it works ○ An open source project Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // PLAN Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 ● Contribute and make your own ○ How to create your own instance // The Spending Stories project Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Problem Most of government data is public data by law. But sometimes, data is only available in paper copy Budget data is hard to find Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Problem Journalists often compare amounts with GDP of countries (it makes no sense!) Budget data is hard to find Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Problem The OpenSpending project has lots of budget data https://openspending.org/ Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Problem The OpenSpending project has lots of budget data But few people understand it Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Solution Provide context! http://spendingstories.org/ Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Spending stories Enter any amount, in any currency Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Spending stories Get meaningful comparisons Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Spending stories There are 150 stories into the database, coming from - The Openspending website - Crowdsourcing Where the data come from? The stories into the database, focused on government spending in the United Kingdom from 2000 Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Spending stories Inflation across time and currency conversion 46mio GBP in 2010 = 49.4 mio GBP in 2012 Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Spending stories Inflation across time and currency conversion 46mio GBP in 2010 = 82.8 mio USD in 2012 Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Spending stories The scale visualisation Log scales are so much more useful Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Spending stories The cards visualisation For a clearer view with the most relevant results Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Spending stories Filter and find a story For a clearer view with the most relevant results Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Spending stories Ask users for additional stories Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Spending stories Manage everything from a strong Django backend Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Make your own instance! // Make your own The source code of the spending stories project is open source and available on Github https://github.com/okfn/spendingstories Anyone can fork it and create his own instance Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Historias de gasto: The spanish version with stories about Spain http://historiasdegasto.org/ Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // A sample instance dedicated to football http://spendingstories-summerschool.herokuapp.com Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Another instance dedicated to football http://spendingstories-summerschool.herokuapp.com Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // A dedicated backend to manage stories Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Translation The translation is supported and implemented into the code. If you want to make your own, different elements need to be translated: - The content of the stories - The interface of the frontend (About, scale visualisation,etc) - The currencies (different ways to write number and currencies) - The equivalent words (an equivalent of, twice the amout of etc) Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015 // Thank you! @annelisebouyer annelise@jplusplus.org @jplusplus_ Anne-Lise Bouyer I 2015