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US Budget (Amazing Poster)
I just came across this amazing poster, Death and Taxes, that shows the entire 2010 US Government Budget. I then lost the next half hour playing in it. So I thought I would continue my accidental theme of the week of posting graphic displays of complex legislation (see Health Care Reform for Dummies) and share it with the cafe.
From the website Wallstats.com :
Hint: if you click the upper right corner it goes fullscreen.
From the website Wallstats.com :
Death and Taxes" is a large representational graph and poster of the federal budget. It contains over 500 programs and departments and almost every program that receives over 200 million dollars annually. The data is straight from the president's 2010 budget request and will be debated, amended, and approved by Congress to begin the fiscal year. All of the item circles are proportional in size to their spending totals and the percentage change from 2009 is included to spot trends and disproportion.And more about the creator and his projects.
WallStats (wôlstăts) n.1. Complex and elusive information synthesized into palatable and insightful visual pieces. 2 Friggin' awesome posters.There really is a wealth of information in there. We hear all these numbers about programs thrown around without much perspective of the size or overall strategy, this really helps.
I'm Jess Bachman and I love information. But far too often, chewing on a raw data set can leave a salty and dry taste in your mouth. That is why I use my pseudo- culinary-visualizing skills to form data into sweet and savoury design.
Hint: if you click the upper right corner it goes fullscreen.
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Awesome find. Rec'd.
August 23, 2009 9:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
bookmarked the website and gave it a thumbs up on stumble Lots uf useful lots of useful stuff..especially for numerically challenged people like me.
This is one of my favorite ways to understand things..mainly because I'm a chocolate lover.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sOIe5Ql0v8
August 23, 2009 10:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mmmm pie charts and oreos! Thats a great video.
And this year the DOD caulks up 901 billion! More then every other country combined. Suck it poor people.
August 23, 2009 11:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
50 billion for Intelligence ??? What do they think I am...stupid ??
C
August 23, 2009 11:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great find. I love cool applications like this.
August 24, 2009 10:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Excellent "treasures" you found in the bottomless mine of the internet!
August 24, 2009 6:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes I gave up the TV years ago to devote more time to mining!
August 24, 2009 6:50 PM | Reply | Permalink