Using Graphs to Analyse Public Spending on International Development by James Hughes.
From the description:
James has been working on a really interesting project for the Department for International Development (DfID, http://www.dfid.gov.uk/), a UK government agency working on providing transparency around the ways that aid money gets spent on different development projects. He has been working on a web application that is providing a frontend + API access for people to interrogate a very detailed data format that details how Countries, Regions, Organisations, Activites, Budgets are related. During his talk, he will be explaining the history of the project, the reasons for moving from a MySQL backend to Neo4j, the benefits and problems that he faced in his experience along the way.
I would wait for the open source software to appear.
If you already know Neo4j, no extra information. If you don’t know Neo4j, no enough information to be useful.
FYI, “transparency” isn’t achieved using a normalized reporting system like IATI. Otherwise, self-reporting tax systems would have no tax evasion. Yes?
If you want useful transparency, it does not involve self-reporting and you have access to third parties who can verified reported transactions.
Slide deck here.
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