Every year, D.C.’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer releases a Capital Improvements Plan. The Plan is generally more than 400 pages in length, and published as a PDF. But hidden somewhere in that PDF is a lot of valuable information on how the government plans to spend money on things like schools, roads, parks, homeless shelters and more over the coming five years.

If only all that data were accessible.

Chris Given, a member of Code for DC, got interested in the data, and specifically in knowing how investment in public works changes over time.

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