by | Dec 4, 2020 | Leadership, Newsletter
By Neeraj Chauhan, Chief Deputy Director, FI$Cal We all know this has been a long and difficult year, with the weight of a global pandemic affecting work everywhere, including at FI$Cal. Despite the move to telework and a department reorganization going on at the same...
by | Nov 2, 2020 | Newsletter
As FISCal continues to work to increase the system’s transparency and reporting capabilities, we are pleased to announce the creation of a COVID-19 Transaction Dashboard in Power BI. This dashboard, released in early October, allows departments to review all...
by | Aug 4, 2020 | Newsletter
Open FI$Cal, California’s financial transparency website, has come a long way since going public in September 2018. The site now displays expenditure information for all 150 departments transacting in the FI$Cal system, updated every month, and it continues to evolve....
by | Apr 2, 2020 | Newsletter
By Joel Riphagen, Senior Advisor Saturday, March 7 was the 10th annual International Open Data Day. This bottom-up initiative is a global celebration of open data, run by local organizations and supported by the Open Knowledge Foundation. Over 300 local events were...
by | Nov 4, 2019 | Leadership, Newsletter
By Joel Riphagen, Senior Advisor for FI$Cal Last month we reached an important milestone when Open FI$Cal, the state’s financial transparency portal, began displaying data from virtually every department transacting in the system. Getting all departments’ expenditure...
