Ruby: Visualizing 2014 Chicago Budget Recommendations

Once again, the data is from City of Chicago Data portal

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The dataset details 2014 Budget Recommendations, which is the line-item budget document proposed by the Mayor to the City Council for approval. Budgeted expenditures are identified by department, appropriation account, and funding type: Local, Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG), and other Grants. “Local” funds refer to those line items that are balanced with locally-generated revenue sources, including but not limited to the Corporate Fund, Water Fund, Midway and O’Hare Airport funds, Vehicle Tax Fund, Library Fund and General Obligation Bond funds. Owner: Budget and Management. Frequency: Data is updated annually. For more information about the budget process, visit the Budget Documents page:

Here is a breakdown of the 2014 recommendations compared with revised 2013 appropriations by department.

Over 10 million dollars and excluding Finance General
2014Chicago_Budg_Dep_rec_vs_2013_approp

Here’s Financial General
FINANCE GENERAL 2013 appro_2014 Rec

Breakdown of Financial General
GenFinvs

Police Breakdown excluding Corporate Fund
Police breakdown

Police Corporate Fund
Police corporatefund20132014

Department of Transportation
DeptTransportBreakdown

Office of the Mayor
Office of mayor

 

City of Chicago Budget – 2014 Budget Recommendations vs 2013 Revised Appropriations OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL (APPROPRIATION AUTHORITY) by APPROPRIATION ACCOUNT DESCRIPTION

Office of Inspector General Both

 

Ruby example used to parse the data
RubyFor2013vs2014

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