DescriptiveStats.OBeu is used on OpenBudgets.eu data mininig tool platform with OpenCPU integration of R and JavaScript to estimate central tendency and dispersion of numeric variables along with their distributions and correlations and the frequencies of categorical dimensions for budget or expenditure datasets of Municipality across Europe.

The vignette shows the way DescriptiveStats.OBeu (in R and OpenCPU environment) is fitted with datasets of OpenBudgets.eu according to the OpenBudgets.eu data model. Detailed documentation about OpenBudgets.eu data model can be found here

Descriptive Statistics on OpenBudgets.eu platform

open_spending.ds is designed to estimate and return the basic descriptive measures, correlation, histogram and boxplot parameters of all the numerical variables and the frequencies of all the nominal variables of OpenBudgets.eu datasets.

The input data must be a JSON link that are described with the OpenBudgets.eu data model. There are different parameters that a user could specify, e.g. dimensions, measured.dimensions and amounts should be defined by the user, to form the dimensions of the dataset. The basic descriptive measures of tendency and spread, boxplot and histogram parameters are estimated, in order to describe and visualize the distribution characteristics of the desired dataset.

`open_spending.ds` input
Input	Description
json_data	The json string, URL or file from Open Spending API
dimensions	The dimensions of the input data
amounts	The measures of the input data
measured.dimensions	The dimensions to which correspond amount/numeric variables
coef.outl	Determines the length of the “whiskers” plot. Default is 1.5.
box.outliers	If TRUE the outliers will be computed at the selected “coef.outl” level
box.width	The width level is determined 0.15 times the square root of the size of the input data.
cor.method	The correlation coefficient method to compute: “pearson” (default),“kendall” or “spearman”.
freq.select	One or more nominal variables to calculate their corresponding frequencies.

Pre-processing of input

DescriptiveStats.OBeu includes functions that automatically calculates the central tendency and spread measures, the boxplot, histogram and barplot visualization parameters and the correlation matrix of the input fiscal dataset.

The final returns are the parameters needed for forming summary tables of central tendency and dispersion measures and visualizing boxplot, histogram, barplot and correlation matrix of the input data.

Central Tendency Measures

Central Tendency Measures describe the central position of a distribution for a group of data. The basic measures are the mean and the median.

Dispersion Measures (Measures of Spread)

Dispersion measures describe how similar or varied the data are. The range, quartiles and the interquartile range, variance and standard deviation are measures of spread.

Output

The output of this process is a list in json format divided into four components of parameters and results with the first subcomponents.

Here is a sort description of the outputs in each function:

`open_spending.ds` return
Function	Output	Description
`statistics`	Min Max Range Mean Median Quantiles Variance StandardDeviation Skewness Kurtosis	The minimum observed value of the input data The maximum observed value of the input data The difference between maximum and minimum The average value of the input data The median value of the input data The 25%, 75% percentiles The variance of the input data The standard deviation of the input data The Skewness of the input data The Kurtosis of the input data
`boxplot`	lo.whisker lo.hinge median up.hinge up.whisker box.width lo.out up.out n	Lower horizontal line out of the box Lower horizontal line of the box Horizontal line in the box Upper horizontal line of the box Upper horizontal line out of the box The box width of each variable Lower outliers Upper outliers The number of non-NA observations
`histogram`	cuts counts mean median	The boundaries of the histogram classes The frequency of each histogram class The average value of the input vector The median value of the input data
`frequencies`	Variable name frequencies "_row" relative.frequencies	The name of the calculated variable The frequency value Name of the categories of the variable Relative frequency values
`correlation`	Variable name Correlation value "_row"	The name of the calculated variable The correlation value The corresponding correlation variable

Examples

The dataset that is being used is available as json link in DescriptiveStats.OBeu package and represents the budget for Wuppertal for 2009 to 2020.

In R environment

open_spending.ds function’s input are data as json link and described with OpenBudgets.eu data model.

Wuppertal_openspending

descript = open_spending.ds(
  json_data =  Wuppertal_openspending, 
  dimensions ="functional_classification_3.Produktgruppe|date_2.Year",
  amounts = "Amount"
  )
# Pretty output using prettify of jsonlite library
jsonlite::prettify(descript)

In OpenCPU environment

Select library and function

Go to: yourserver/ocpu/test
Copy and paste the following function to the endpoint

../library/DescriptiveStats.OBeu/R/open_spending.ds
# library/ {name of the library} /R/ {function}

Select Method: Post

Add parameters

Click add parameters every time you want to add a new parameters and values.

Define the input data:
- Param Name: json_data
- Param Value (URL of json data): "http://next.openspending.org/api/3/cubes/21260d070eb5d63a121ea4c400dafbbb:apbn_fungsi_2016/facts?pagesize=20" (or any other json URL with the data)
Define the dimensions parameter:
- Param Name: dimensions
- Param Value: "functional_classification_2.Function|functional_classification_2.Code"
Define the amount parameter:
- Param Name: amounts
- Param Value: "Revised"

You add likewise further parameters and change the default parameters of coef.outl, box.outliers, box.wdth, cor.method, see DesciptiveStats.OBeu reference manual for further details.

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Results

copy the /ocpu/tmp/{this_id_number}/R/.val (second on the right panel)
finally, paste yourserver/ocpu/tmp/{this_id_number}/R/.val on a new tab.

DescriptiveStats in OpenBudgets

Kleanthis Koupidis, Aikaterini Chatzopoulou, Charalampos Bratsas