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What can I understand about the City of Scottsdale by examining it's vendor payments?

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Vendor-Payments-City-of-Scottsdale

What can I understand about the City of Scottsdale by examining it's vendor payments?

The City of Scottsdale publishes a dataset* that includes vendor payments that took place within the previous year.

Questions:

  1. What are the largest expenditures by Fund, Cost Center, and Account?
  2. Are there any accounts that look unusual/different than I would expect?
  3. How does the mean dollar value of payments differ betwwen Fund, Cost Center, and Account?
  4. Do any payments look fraudulent?
  5. Which expenditures track mostly strongly to specific times of the year?






*Contains information from the City of Scottsdale Open Database Portal, which is made available here under the Open Database License.