Show HN: Searchable aggregator of 24M London council spending transactions(cspend.uk)

Show HN: Searchable aggregator of 24M London council spending transactions

https://cspend.uk

5 comments

ashfn5 mesi fa

Hi everyone, I built cspend.uk which is a free site that combines over 24 million published payments from all London boroughs and councils into one fast, searchable database. You can search by supplier, description, amount, date, borough, etc, filter/sort results, and skip the hassle of separate CSV files or PDFs per council. It's a side project to make public spending data easier to explore so that people can check where council tax goes. Feedback welcome: Is this helpful? What would you search for? Any improvements or issues? Found anything funny or interesting?

piterrro5 mesi fa

Whats the technology you used? I love the speed of it

ashfn5 mesi fa

Thanks, it's just raw js canvas and msgpack on the api to use less bandwidth

atmanactive5 mesi fa

Fascinating. This is exactly what democracy needs. The only way to keep the ruling class accountable is by demanding total transparency. We need this on all levels of government. Thank you and keep up the good work.

ashfn5 mesi fa

Thank you so much