City of Cincinnati Vendor Payments

Data Description: This data set contains all records of payments made to vendors by the City of Cincinnati from fiscal year 2014 to present. It includes information such as the department who paid for the service, the reason for payment, and vendor name.

Data Creation: This data is pulled directly from the City's financial software; which centralizes all department financial transactions city wide.

Data Created By: The Cincinnati Financial System (CFS)

Refresh Frequency: Weekly

Data Dictionary: A data dictionary providing definitions of columns and attributes is available as an attachment to this data set.

Processing: The City of Cincinnati is committed to providing the most granular and accurate data possible. In that pursuit the Office of Performance and Data Analytics facilitates standard processing to most raw data prior to publication. Processing includes but is not limited: address verification, geocoding, decoding attributes, and addition of administrative areas (i.e. Census, neighborhoods, police districts, etc.).

Data Usage: For directions on downloading and using open data please visit our How-to Guide: https://data.cincinnati-oh.gov/dataset/Open-Data-How-To-Guide/gdr9-g3ad

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"cincinnati-oh-gov/city-of-cincinnati-vendor-payments-qrj9-83t8\".\"city_of_cincinnati_vendor_payments\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.