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+title: Expert Grup
+authors:
+- Neil Ashton
+---
+<div class="well">Project: <a href="http://www.budgetstories.md/">Budgetstories, Moldova.</a></div>
+In mid 2012, Expert Grup began to work to make sense of huge budget
+datasets. In November 2012, while finalizing the project concept,
+members of the organising team took part in the [Balkan Budget
+Workshop](http://openspending.org/blog/2012/11/26/Sarajevo-Workshop-Writeup.html) organised by the OpenSpending team.
+
+> “It was really helpful to learn about data formats. It is the equivalent
+> of a data literacy 101 class.” - <strong> Victoria Vlad </strong>
+
+![BudgetStoriesImg](http://www.budgetstories.md/wp-content/uploads/cit-ne-costa-parlamentul.jpg)
+
+## About the team
+
+The core BudgetStories.md team at Expert Grup
+consists of three core staff members: the project director, one project
+communication and analytical expert, and one additional analytic expert
+as support. The implementation was made with an external web design
+company who executed the website based on input from the team. The web
+company had a total of five people working on BudgetStories.md: two
+designers, two developers, and one project manager.
+
+Expert Grup has introduced several projects using open budget and
+spending data. The main challenges they've encountered have related to
+accessing data, cleaning the data (using Excel), and managing the data
+visualisation work, which was done by an an external web agency.
+
+Most of the needed data was available to the public on
+[data.gov.md](http://data.gov.md/) and in the World Bank's [BOOST data
+tool](http://www.mf.gov.md/ro/BOOST/), and government agencies were open
+to providing direct requests for data requested in a timely manner. The
+data was analysed with Excel. During the research, Expert Grup used the
+<a href="http://community.openspending.org/resources/handbook/">Spending Data Handbook</a>, the <a href="http://opendatahandbook.org/">Open Data Handbook</a> and the <a href="http://datajournalismhandbook.org/">Data Journalism
+Handbook</a> as resources.
+
+## Technical challenges
+
+### Presenting the data
+> “It is still a challenge for us to make visualizations meaningful. We plan to improve with every infographic we
+> publish.”
+
+Expert Grup is planning to work more on developing their
+presentations of their data. Most of their visualisations have been
+developed by a web agency based on the directions from Expert Grup. One
+exception is the visualisation of the [Moldova
+budget](http://www.budgetstories.md/bugetul-2013/), which was created with
+OpenSpending treemaps by Expert Grup.
+
+In the future Expert Grup wil be looking to expand their work.
+
+> “There is still a lot of work to be done. We have until now published three data
+> visualizations.”
+
+So far their portfolio includes excellent examples like these:
+
+*  The [Budget
+    calendar](http://www.budgetstories.md/anul-bugetar-2013/), which enables
+    citizens to track and learn about the budget approval process for
+    2012 - 2014 as an interactive module, including the documents which
+    need to be published at each stage of the budget process.
+*  An OpenSpending budget treemap, added in order to provide a meaningful
+    visualization of the [annual
+    proposal](http://www.budgetstories.md/afla-cat-ne-a-costat-parlamentul-in-2012/)
+*  A visualisation of the [agricultural subsidy
+    program](http://www.budgetstories.md/subventiile-pentru-agricultura-in-2012-pentru-ce-cui-si-unde-au-fost-alocate/).
+
+## Community challenges
+
+<strong>Engaging CSOs in spending data:</strong> According to Expert Grup civil society
+(NGOs, journalists, and universities) has until now shown little
+knowledge of or interest in the existence of open data. The goal has
+therefore been to engage with and educate journalists and policymakers.
+The main site was launched in February and gave journalists access to cleaned data sets and visualisations for the first time
+journalists, as well as
+encouraging their republishing and reuse in the public. The aim would be
+to gain increased public attention to inefficiencies identified in
+government spending and establish connections to more stakeholders. The
+results of the outreach are still being assessed.
+
+Source: [Guest blog post on
+OpenSpending](http://community.openspending.org/2013/02/budgetstories-md-using-open-budget-data-to-create-meaningful-stories/).
+
+**Next**: [Case Studies: Spending](../../case-studies-spending/)
+
+**Up**: [Case Studies: Budgets](../)