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Re: Show HN: govuptime.com

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Ah, that chart on the bottom is on a log scale. I wasn't expecting that... and if I didn't look closer I would have completely misinterpreted it (for example, it appears that the DoD is mostly shut down).

It took me a sec too. It's a confusing application, since the intent is to compare to adjacent rows.. the first one for example is "half furloughed" but only a slightly smaller red line. Visually confusing.

Re: Show HN: govuptime.com

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post #12

Feature request: hover pop ups explaining what each of the acronyms mean.

This is exactly what I was going to recommend. Maybe a sentence or two describing what the department does as well. I'm sure most non-Americans (and even most Americans) don't know what the DOI does, for example.

Re: Show HN: govuptime.com

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Nice dashboard :) Out of curiosity, where did you get the data re: who is furloughed from which departments? I have been working on a similar data graphic but had to collect that data in a Google Doc by hand with a couple colleagues from the OMB's list of contingency plans. I'd be curious to compare my data with yours.

FWIW I'm working on visualizing it with a treemap instead of bar charts - my progress is here but still has lots of design work left to do:

https://github.com/dandelany/shutdown2013

http://cognitiveharmony.net/experiments/shutdown2013/

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