BDE SC6 Pilot - 3rd Hangout Michalis Vafopoulos

1. BIG DATA EUROPE
PILOT SC6: CITIZEN BUDGET ON MUNICIPAL LEVEL
HANG OUT
28 SEPTEMBER 2016
M VAFOPOULOS (NCSR-D), VAFOPOULOS.ORG
Integrating Big Data, Software & Communities for Addressing
Europe’s Societal Challenges

2. Idea & Objectives
State of the Art
o Budget: the most important document of public policy
o Budget execution affects everyday lives
o Citizens are more involved in city level activities
Objective
Can we make budgets more useful for citizens,
researchers and decision makers?
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3. Idea & Objectives
 Create an online Dashboard on Economic
Data
o Harvest – heterogeneous formats
o Normalise – RDF
o Link & map the data – attributes & structure
o Analyse the data – custom comparisons &
predictions
o Visualise – online dashboard
o Procide raw data – further re-use as open data
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4. Potential users & usages
Citizens & Journalists
o Infographics & simplified analysis
Decision makers (politics & business)
o Financial ratios
Researchers
o Detailed & aligned datasets in machine-readable
format
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5. How? The LinkedEconomy
model
A common semantic model that captures an
integrated view of the economic activity and is:
o Economic-theory driven
o Based on existing vocabularies
o Structured and open development process
(GitHub)
o Easy to be consumed by any system
o Scalable and reusable
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6. Data used / produced in Pilot
Budget Data and Budget Execution
Data
 Municipality of Athens, Greece
o Description: budget execution data in detail (account level)
o Frequency: daily
o Ownership: open
o Format: API
 Municipality of Thessaloniki & Kalamaria, Greece
o Description: budget execution data in detail (account level)
o Frequency: daily
o Ownership: open 26-oct.-16
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• Additional Open Data
o Description: LOD Greek Census 20
o Ownership: open
o Format: RDF
o E.g. population per municipality
• Size of Data
o ~ 7 MB / week

7. From mass input to fine output
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Expens
e
code
Description Budgeted Committed Approved Spending
6011 Regular salaries
€17,696,000 €17,696,000
€2,865,37
9
€1,436,98
3
0111
Rentals from
residential real
estate
€17,696 €17,696 €17,696 €17,696
0114
Rentals of municipal
market
€17,696 €17,696 €17,696 €17,696
Rentals of the
allocation of
communal areas for
€17,696 €17,696 €17,696 €17,696
Revenue
code
Description Budgeted Approved Spending
0621 Coverage spending
of welfare benefits
€68,317,58
3
€11,707,243
€11,707,24
3
…
Financial Ratio
(2015)
City of
Athens
City of
Thessaloni
ki
City of
Kalamari
a
Revenues
per capita
€ 643 € 825 € 338

8. Two H2020 projects working together on the SC6 Pilot
• Big Data Europe
• Your Data Stories
SC6 Pilot core team: Ivana Versic (Cessda), Michalis Vafopoulos
(NCSR-D),
Martin Kaltenböck (SWC), Jürgen Jakobitsch (SWC), Hossein Abroshan
SC6 Pilot Partners

9. Questions
Let us discuss!
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10. Contact & Links:
 NCSR-D, http://www.demokritos.gr/?lang=en
Michalis Vafopoulos, vafopoulos.org, vafopoulos@gmail.com
https://github.com/BDE-social-pilot
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