I tried to think of some things you could do with the API which you couldn’t do before.  The sample code on GitHub does some things that would be very difficult using Excel, but here are two things which are almost possible:

EthicalDepartmentalSpending.org

Shop Ethical

PLUS

NSW GovernmenteTendering

EQUALS

EthicalDepartmentalSpending.org

 fake green pie

NOTE: This is not actually true.  I couldn’t get actual data for this.  sorry.

 

Service NSW

PLUS

NSW GovernmenteTendering

EQUALS

TheySpendForYou.org

Brad Hazzard, minister for Health, was responsible for 396 contracts in the third quarter of 2016/17, worth $330 million.  The top 5 contractors were

Sg Fleet Aust $58,078,206
Siemens Healthcare $19,759,391
Philips Electronics Australia $18,141,908
Vision Software Solutions $14,307,485
Taylor Construction Group $10,925,942

NOTE: This actually is true.

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