Public budget data, once cleaned, still looks like a spreadsheet, and the people who most need it are not spreadsheet people. What makes a budget tool usable for them? And where the work is unpaid to begin with, how should that be said to...
A public data tool does not have to be pretty before anybody can use it. One dataset, searchable, with a chart that loads on a slow connection, is already useful to a journalist or a citizen. Publish that, see who uses it and for what, and...