British Gov't Releases Spending Data

An anonymous reader writes "In a move sure to have transparency activists salivating, the UK government has released some 195,000 lines of data detailing its financial outgoings. The BBC reports that 'All spending of more than £25,000 made between May and September was published — in line with a pre-election commitment by the Conservatives — although some departments also published spending over £500. People are being encouraged to pick through the enormous quantity of online information to spot waste and hold ministers to account.'"

Re:News For Nerds Please

[Anonymous Coward]

Online publication of data. It has 2 words that's associated with nerds; online and data. Therefore /. worthy.

Re:News For Nerds Please

[Anne Thwacks]

I hope you are wearing a kevlar swimsuit! (and Cuban Heel PHP boots)

Re:News For Nerds Please

[Hognoxious]

Data does not process or analyse themselves!

But it does randomly switch from singular to plural in mid-sentence, or so they would appears to.