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A periodically updated archive of financial data published by the city of Los Angeles' Checkbook LA data portal.

What it tracks

Data set	Row count	Last download
Audits	373	2014-02-27 06:30:03.086249	CSV	JSON
Broadband Initiative Survey	9	2014-02-27 06:30:03.086249	[CSV](csv/Broadband Initiative Survey.csv)	[JSON](json/Broadband Initiative Survey.json)
Catalog	121	2014-02-27 06:30:03.086249	CSV	JSON
Department Of Recreation And Parks Facility And Park Information	916	2014-02-27 06:30:03.086249	[CSV](csv/Department Of Recreation And Parks Facility And Park Information.csv)	[JSON](json/Department Of Recreation And Parks Facility And Park Information.json)
eCheckbook Data	159244	2014-02-27 06:30:03.086249	[CSV](csv/eCheckbook Data.csv)	[JSON](json/eCheckbook Data.json)
General Fund Budget Expenditures	1927	2014-02-27 06:30:03.086249	[CSV](csv/General Fund Budget Expenditures.csv)	[JSON](json/General Fund Budget Expenditures.json)
General Fund Revenue	2862	2014-02-27 06:30:03.086249	[CSV](csv/General Fund Revenue.csv)	[JSON](json/General Fund Revenue.json)
Home Page Featured Scrolling Stories	5	2014-02-27 06:30:03.086249	[CSV](csv/Home Page Featured Scrolling Stories.csv)	[JSON](json/Home Page Featured Scrolling Stories.json)
Home Page Stories	8	2014-02-27 06:30:03.086249	[CSV](csv/Home Page Stories.csv)	[JSON](json/Home Page Stories.json)
Los Angeles City Payroll Calendar	256	2014-02-27 06:30:03.086249	[CSV](csv/Los Angeles City Payroll Calendar.csv)	[JSON](json/Los Angeles City Payroll Calendar.json)
Messages	3	2014-02-27 06:30:03.086249	CSV	JSON
Neighborhood Council Expenditures	464	2014-02-27 06:30:03.086249	[CSV](csv/Neighborhood Council Expenditures.csv)	[JSON](json/Neighborhood Council Expenditures.json)
Payroll	162397	2014-02-27 06:30:03.086249	CSV	JSON
Templates	1	2014-02-27 06:30:03.086249	CSV	JSON

What changed in last download

Nothing

What you can do

• Try it out and report bugs.
• Figure out ways to build notifications, visualizations or another application on top of the shifting data.
• Try forking it and making it go on a Socrata based data site in your city.
• Or just modify it to work off any old public data set.

Getting started

Create a virtual enviroment to work inside.

$ virtualenv --no-site-packages checkbook-la-watchdog

Jump in and turn it on.

$ cd checkbook-la-watchdog
$ . bin/activate

Clone the git repository from GitHub.

$ git clone git@github.com:datadesk/checkbook-la-watchdog.git repo

Enter the project and install its dependencies.

$ cd repo
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the script to get the latest files.

$ python watchdog.py