Bedford:data Analysis of Supplier Payments

Bedford Borough Council began releasing their payments to suppliers over £1000 earlier this year. Initially this data was only available as PDFs, so Bedford:data was built to make the information more accessible. Since then, the council has begun to make the data available in the more useful XLS format, however a true, open standard would be preferable. So Bedford:data continues to produce CSV versions and provide graphing tools to review council spending over time, by department and by supplier.