Tools and Projects

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

Budget visualization resources

  • OpenSpending: OpenSpending is a free, open and global platform to search, visualise and analyse fiscal data in the public sphere.
  • D3: D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS. D3’s emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining powerful visualization components and a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation.
  • Peter Krantz: Author of some of the base code used for this budget visualization project.
  • Jim Vallandingham: Author of some of the base code used for this budget visualization project.

Budget data resources

Budget visualization examples

Cities

Counties

States

Countries