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Paper presented by Ellen Miller, The Sunlight Foundation to the Government 2.0 Summit in Washington DC on September 7, 2010.

The power point presentation associated with this paper is available from the Gov 2.0 summit website.

Added: 10 September 2010 Page views: 1,713 Rating: 0 Votes: 0

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Clearspending - making sense of the Federal checkbook: Sunlight Foundation. "We've taken data from other federal reporting systems and compared it with the data found in USASpending.gov across three categories: Consistency, Completeness and Timeliness. How close are the reported dollar amounts to the yearly estimates? How many of the required fields are filled out in each record? And how long did it take the agency to report the money once it was allocated to a project?..."

Added: 9 September 2010 Rating: 0

Clearspending. That's What We Need.: By Ellen Miller. Sunlight Foundation Blog, 8 September 2010. "... USASpending was created to provide the public with information about how the federal government spends our tax dollars. It was launched nearly three years ago and has already gone through three redesigns, each one flashier than the next. The site is pretty impressive graphics-wise, but unfortunately the data provided is full of inaccuracies, according to Clearspending, a new Sunlight site that tracks and illustrates just how broken the data is. We were deliberate in our approach when conducting this analysis, and we hope that by giving these problems the light of day, it might actually help get them fixed..."

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