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- lucy
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redirect_from: /2012/06/upload-videos/
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title: Video Instruction Guide - Loading Data Into OpenSpending
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Recently, the OpenSpending team have been working on a project to visualise financial data in Cameroon. One of the aims of the project is to create a platform which is sustainable for years to come and that means that it needs to be really easy to load and maintain datasets into OpenSpending.
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So... we've created some screencasts about how to load data into OpenSpending. Please do take a look and try it out for yourself and let us know if anything needs to be clearer!
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Once you've got your data into the [OpenSpending data format](http://openspending.org/help/data-cleansing.html) you're ready to load.
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## Preparing your dataset information
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First add information about your dataset to make it easily findable in OpenSpending
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<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/45913394" width="500" height="375" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/45913394">OpenSpending Upload</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/okf">Open Knowledge Foundation</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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## Upload your data online
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Next, you need to get your CSV file online. There are numerous ways to do this, [Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/), exporting your data directly from a Google Docs (*File > Publish to the Web > Publish a CSV*). We've used the DataHub to publish our data. If you've never used it before here's a quick demo of how to upload a dataset.
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<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/45913395" width="500" height="375" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/45913395">DataHub upload</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/okf">Open Knowledge Foundation</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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## Create a model to explain the structure of your data to OpenSpending
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Next, tell OpenSpending how to understand your data by creating a model.
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<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/45913393" width="500" height="375" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/45913393">OpenSpending - Create a Model</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/okf">Open Knowledge Foundation</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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If that's all gone well, you'll be able to move on to creating visualisations (video coming soon - watch this space!) and if not and you have some errors watch the video below to see what to do next.
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## Not quite right? How to fix errors...
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It doesn't always go right the first time you try and load your data - here's what to do if you have made a mistake either in your model or your data.
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<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/45913391" width="500" height="375" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/45913391">OpenSpending Error</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/okf">Open Knowledge Foundation</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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Please let us know if you upload a new dataset and if you have any feedback. You can get in touch any time via the [mailing list](http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/openspending).
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