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.
- What are the largest expenditures by Fund, Cost Center, and Account?
- Are there any accounts that look unusual/different than I would expect?
- How does the mean dollar value of payments differ betwwen Fund, Cost Center, and Account?
- Do any payments look fraudulent?
- 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.