Tomorrow will be two weeks since I asked for #seattle proposed city budget data in a format that's not a pdf or glossy diagram. Have had no reply (from Strauss' office or the budget office). Sigh.
I emailed a followup request on 10/31 and still no. If I want to do any data analysis comparing year over year budgets before they vote I will have to extract from PDFs. SIGH.
@rachael Does the PDF have selectable text at least, or is it in image form?
@sdwilsh Havent tried yet. I know of libraries that can extract more programmatically anyway. the real challenge is mapping the line items to the open data CSVs they publish for previous years.
@sdwilsh There's a PowerBI page linked off the council budget page -- https://app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrIjoiMDAyMGJjMzktZjQ1ZS00Y2JlLWEzNDktNzU5OGFhMWQxNjg0IiwidCI6Ijc4ZTYxZTQ1LTZiZWItNDAwOS04Zjk5LTM1OWQ4YjU0ZjQxYiJ9 -- but I think they disabled any ability to export data from it. SIGH.