So basically since 1976, the US is only on the positive side of the budget for 4 years (1998-2001). For all other (34) years, there has been a deficit. Yicks. If the US was a person, that person would be considered a financial disaster.
US Budget Visualization Using d3
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#22It's pretty shocking how much more expensive Federal unemployment benefits have been for this most recent recession, assuming that's what's responsible for the massive spike in the Department of Labor's budget.
Compare with the 2001-2002 tech bust, for example.
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#23It's pretty shocking how much more expensive Federal unemployment benefits have been for this most recent recession, assuming that's what's responsible for the massive spike in the Department of Labor's budget. Compare with the 2001-2002 tech bust, for example.
The bubble destroyed US employment, and there has been very little improvement from the lowest percentage reached of prime aged workers that are employed:
http://stateofworkingamerica.org/charts/drop-in-employment-d...
I assume that as unemployment benefits drop, these people will begin to move into homelessness.
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#24This is not a very good visualization.
It makes it impossible to compare values in any meaningful sense - either in a relative growth, or the size of the budget as a whole. The animation serves no purpose, other than to make the user wait a few seconds between switching years.
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#25This is not a very good visualization. It makes it impossible to compare values in any meaningful sense - either in a relative growth, or the size of the budget as a whole. The animation serves no purpose, other than to make the user wait a few seconds between switching years.
The animation here is worse than useless, it's confusing. Better if it just flashed instantly from one view to the next without things flying about everywhere.
Edit: That said, to say something nice, the animation is technically done very well.
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#26Why does it resort and regrow all the blocks when you switch between years or other settings? If the same blocks simply grew or shrunk, it would be a lot easier to follow the difference. Actually, it sometimes simply converts blocks into others - switching between 2012 and 2013, the "Justice" block morphs into the "National Infrastructure Bank" block. Very confusing.
this is because some blocks are added and removed from year to year. In this type of visualization, it's impossible to keep things the same size and position while also changing the amounts. The best way to use this isn't to switch between years. If you click on any cell, you can see a graph of how that changes over time. If you double click on any of the cells, you can see a new visualization of everything that make…
It's definitely not because some blocks are added and removed. Click on the same year twice and the blocks animate all over the place. The animations are worse than useless -- they actually hinder the ability to compare two years.
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#27This is not a very good visualization. It makes it impossible to compare values in any meaningful sense - either in a relative growth, or the size of the budget as a whole. The animation serves no purpose, other than to make the user wait a few seconds between switching years.
not sure if you saw that you could click for a graph or double click to see a new treemap of any department. This visualization is built for people to explore what's in each of the departments, not really to compare departments with each other.
For example, you can see that in 2012 that 2.89% of the budget went to education, but if you double click, you can see that only 13.73% of that went to elementary and secondary education.
You can also single click anywhere and see a graph of how things have changed over time. So you can see that in 2009 there was a huge spike in elementary and secondary education, and you can go to 2009 to further investigate, and find there was a "State Fiscal Stabilization Fund" in 2009 that sent $14 billion to education, and then went away.
I think another visualization comparing departments would be pretty cool, and might build that one next.
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#28NYT has a 2013 budget proposal visualization in d3, made I believe by Mike Bostock himself: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/13/us/politics/20...
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#29NYT has a 2013 budget proposal visualization in d3, made I believe by Mike Bostock himself: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/13/us/politics/20...
It says "By Shan Carter" on the webpage.
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#30Why does it resort and regrow all the blocks when you switch between years or other settings? If the same blocks simply grew or shrunk, it would be a lot easier to follow the difference. Actually, it sometimes simply converts blocks into others - switching between 2012 and 2013, the "Justice" block morphs into the "National Infrastructure Bank" block. Very confusing.
I agree with you, maybe this could help the author: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/constancy/
this is cool, will check it out tonight