Tools and Projects

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

Budget Visualization Resources

• OpenSpending
• D3
• Peter Krantz
• Jim Vallandingham

Budget Data Resources

• Spending Data Handbook
• The Fiscal Data Package
• Sacramento Open Data

Budget Visualization Examples

Cities

• Checkbook NYC (New York City, New York, United States)
• City of Palo Alto's Financial Reporting Platform (Palo Alto, California, United States)
• HNL Open Data (Honolulu, Hawaii, United States)
• Berlin Open Data (Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
• OpenDataPhilly (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)
• Long Beach Open Data Portal (Long Beach, California, United States)

Counties (United States Only)

• Cook County Open Data (Cook County, Illinois, United States)

States (United States Only)

• Budget Challenge (California, United States)
• Budget Browser (Massachusetts, United States)
• Our State Budget - (Washington, United States)

International (Countries/Regions)

• How much has the U.S. government spent this year? (United States)
• Where Does It All Go? (United Kingdom)
• Central Government Budget (Sweden)
• Federal Budget (Germany)
• National Budget Investment (Cameroon)
• Municipal Budgets (Slovakia)
• Budget Stories (Moldova)