Digitivity » Visual Display of Quantitative Information http://digitivity.org The Digital Productivity Blog Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:34:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Visualizing Federal Spending: The Federal Budget in One Poster http://digitivity.org/868/visualizing-federal-spending-the-federal-budget-in-one-poster http://digitivity.org/868/visualizing-federal-spending-the-federal-budget-in-one-poster#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:14:17 +0000 Digitivity http://digitivity.org/?p=868 Posted in Digital Life

Remember The Visual Display of Quantitative Information? It was a book by Edward Tufte of Yale that showed innovative ways of showing a lot of numbers in intuitive and information-dense ways. Now somebody's come up with a poster that tries to make sense of the federal budget along the same lines. Related posts:
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]]> Remember The Visual Display of Quantitative Information? It was a book by Edward Tufte of Yale that showed innovative ways of showing a lot of numbers in intuitive and information-dense ways.

Now somebody’s come up with a poster that tries to make sense of the federal budget along the same lines.

Mint.com, the online personal budgeting website which helps you know where your money is going, posted a blog entry on a poster that helps you know where your tax money is going.

The “Death and Taxes” poster shows federal spending, with the larger circles being the more spendy departments (like the Department of Defense). Click through for a larger version:
death-and-taxes-poster

You can buy the poster at wallstats.com for $24 from the artist who made it. Zoomorama features an interesting way to zoom in and out of the poster here.

The Young Americans for Liberty mentioned the death and taxes poster here.

Mint.com also has some great visualizations for what a trillion dolllars is.

Related posts:

  1. Federal Court Rules Defendant Must Provide Decrypted Data
  2. Make Photos Like the Obama Hope Poster at Obamicon.me

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