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section: help
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lead: true
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title: Gathering data
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authors:
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- Neil Ashton
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To add a dataset to OpenSpending, you must first have some data. If you already have it, you can proceed. If not, you need to find it.
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Begin your search for data by consulting esources such as the[ School of Data](http://schoolofdata.org/handbook/courses/finding-data/) and the[ Data Journalism Handbook](http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/getting_data.html). You can also get ideas on how to go about your search by visiting the[ OpenSpending group](http://datahub.io/group/openspending) on datahub.io, and you can ask questions on the #openspending IRC channel on Freenode.
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The data you find will hopefully be in a "machine-readable" format, for example in the form of an Excel spreadsheet or a CSV file. If you find data in a format like PDF or a Word document, it will be very hard to work with, and you might consider simply trying different data!
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**Next**: [Formatting data](../formatting-data/)
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**Up**: [OpenSpending Guide](../)
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