User talk:Brian McNeil/recovery.gov

Initial look at recovery.org
Relatively easy to drill down into where money has been spent - not so easy to see the job figures.

Data is available piecemeal as state-level reporting figures in spreadsheets.

Retrieve with

$ curl http://download.recovery.gov/recipient/2009_Q4/[A-Z][A-Z]_FinalAwardsFY09Q4.xls.zip -o "#1#2_FinalAwardsFY09Q4.xls.zip"

xls may be replaced with cvs or xml

This collects all the end-Q3 reports.

Note: There don't appear to be database dumps available, likely in MSSQL judging by .asp front-end stuff.
 * xls files recommended over csv for use in OpenOffice. OO import of csv files leaves SUM calculations unenterable. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:48, 29 December 2009 (UTC)