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authors:
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- friedrich
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redirect_from: /2012/02/thekit/
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title: Announcing the Where Does My Money Go? Assembly Kit
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tags:
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- Releases
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- Updates
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---
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Over the past few months, we've made a lot of progress on OpenSpending. The core of the application is now mostly stable and it is getting ever easier to load data into the platform through the web-based dataset editor. Yet, inevitably, this raises a simple question: I've imported my data, what next?
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Thanks to our [API](http://openspending.org/help/api.html), there can be an infinite number of answers. With the [BubbleTree](http://okfnlabs.org/bubbletree/) diagram, the [Daily Bread](http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/dailybread.html) application and the transactional spending browser, we have a few simple answers.
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But as [Michal Škop blogged recently](http://blog.openspending.org/2012/02/15/the-czech-budget-on-line-the-half-success-story/), up to now it has been fairly difficult to use both these widgets and the OpenSpending API to create custom front-ends.
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To make things easier, we've now created the [Assembly Kit](https://github.com/openspending/wheredoesmymoneygo.org). The kit is in fact the source for a newly styled version of the [Where Does My Money Go?](http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/) site that has gone live yesterday. [Contained in this](https://github.com/openspending/wheredoesmymoneygo.org) is a clean set of templates that can anyone who knows basic HTML can easily use to make a lightweight, white-label budget visualization site, styled according to your own wishes.
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<a href="http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7201/6886198003_781374afa7.jpg" width="500" height="263" alt="Screen Shot 2012-02-16 at 2.35.48 PM"></a>
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A set of widgets are included and can be adapted to another dataset with just a few edits. And since everything runs against the OpenSpending API, you don't need to run your own database. Instead, you can [load your data into OpenSpending.org](http://wiki.openspending.org/Loading_into_OpenSpending) and then customise the user facing side - for example, you can just use a generic blog or a set of static HTML files.
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Our next step in March will be to make it easier for users - especially Journalists - to create custom configurations for the visualizations via a graphical interface, save specific views and share them through a simple embed code. We'll also work to roll out the mapping support more widely and to create more custom apps on top of the API.
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Our goal is to make OpenSpending the easiest way to publish and analyze a government finance dataset - with your help! So please provide us with feedback and contribute your own visualizations to the OpenSpending platform.
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* [Assembly Kit](https://github.com/openspending/satellite-template)
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