We've built a modern platform to form a robust basis for understanding public finances in Utah.
It's comprehensive in that all our 1,000+ governments contribute their expense and revenue data. If you have any suggestions for our site, we get about ~20,000 hits a month (high for a government site).
The GCP architecture has allowed us to provide efficient and effective access to the public and research groups.
Favorite activities on transparent.utah.gov are searching the public college football coaches' salaries, but any public employee's salary can be easily searched, viewed and understood over time, individually or at scale. The same kind of search can be conducted for vendors doing business with government in Utah. With Data Studio, we provide a tabular kind of pivot table for filtering financial summaries across all our funds, functions, objects and programs - instant delivery of what can be complicated information.
We are also cleaning and curating this vast data so it can be analytically useful. Our job title portal is an example of understanding things like teacher compensation that are typically misunderstood.
https://transparent.utah.gov/
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