"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be."
Lord Kelvin

Data Publication for Workshop at Big Data for Policy Conference

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June 17, 2015

 

A dataset and analysis codes are released to support the workshop held by Mihály Fazekas at the conference “Policy-making in the Big Data Era: Opportunities and Challenges” at the University of Cambridge on the 17th of June 2015. The data and codes are solely for demonstrating some interesting ways structured public procurement data can be used to measure favouritism in government contracting.

The presentation: (PDF)

UK government supplier data (2009-2013): Public procurement supplier-level dataset, half-yearly aggregation, contracts awarded by the UK central administration. The analysis shows that some companies simultaneously exhibit high corruption risk patterns in both procurement success and tendering red flags (CRI) throughout the 2010 change of government.

Data (ZIP)

 

Suggested citation:

 

Fazekas, M. (2015, June 17). Exploring Government Contracting Data to Hold Governments Accountable in the Big Data Era [Conference Presentation]. “Policy-making in the Big Data Era: Opportunities and Challenges”, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. https://www.crcb.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Fazekas_DataForPol_DIGIWHIST_workshop_150617.pdf