The Budget
As an example of this process, I'm going to use U.S. federal government budget authorization data, which the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) publishes in a variety of equivalent flat formats, even though the data itself is relatively unflat. This is a good example of the sort of legacy data developers often have to deal with. The complete document [http://w3.access.gpo.gov/usbudget/fFY2002/db.html] consists of 3,185 line items. Each line item consists of 43 separate fields. In the comma-separated values (CSV) version of the file, a typical line item looks like this:
"418","National Endowment for the Humanities","00","National Endow- ment for the Humanities","0200","National Endowment for the Humani- ties: grants and administration","59","503","Research ...
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