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Explore Campaign Finance – D3 Visualization of 24 Thousand Federal Politicians(explorecampaignfinance.com)
3 points by SIK 10y ago|0 comments
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by SIK 13y ago
Author here! There seems to be some confusion about this visualization, but we can solve it with just two words: Start Clicking! The thing that makes this visualization different than other visualizations is that you can see the individual
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by SIK 13y ago
yes! this is how it already works! if you click a box, it will show you a graph of how that item has changed over time. If you double click, it will create a new treemap made up of the underlying data for that box.
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by SIK 13y ago
you can use the visualization to see exactly what makes up the health and human services budget item, by double clicking on it. Then you can also see the individual programs that make up medicare and medicaid.
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by SIK 13y ago
if you double click on the department of labor, you can see what makes up the spike!
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by SIK 13y ago
are you on the latest version of chrome?
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by SIK 13y ago
this is cool, will check it out tonight
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by SIK 13y ago
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 ea
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by SIK 13y ago
The base year for inflation is 1976, so the multiple is because a dollar in 1976 is worth multiples of a dollar in 2013.
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by SIK 13y ago
Are there any other ones that let you explore what makes up the agencies and departments? I was looking but couldn't find any that let you explore beyond the high level amounts.
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by SIK 13y ago
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 switc
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by SIK 13y ago
this is exactly how the visualization works! If you click on any cell, it shows you how that has changed over time. If you double click, you can see more details about whatever you clicked on. For example, if you double click on the departm
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by SIK 13y ago
if you click on any cell, you can see a graph of how it changes over time.
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D3 Interactive Visualization of the US Budget – 1976 through 2013(solomonkahn.com)
8 points by SIK 13y ago|2 comments
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by SIK 15y ago
I would have a few alternatives ready to go, and then send over an offer about 1/2 of what your max offer would be. The whole thing about not being interested in resale is completely false. They are lying to your face. They are completely 1
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by SIK 15y ago
To me, hacker news is my startup hub. I have chance encounters all the time with people who have interesting knowledge about startups and startup tools that could help me. There is a huge social group who don't think starting a startup mean
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by SIK 15y ago
This seems like a false dichotomy. We all just want to make things work. Oftentimes with programming, having a better understanding of your tools helps you become better at "making it work."
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by SIK 15y ago
I am in the process of doing exactly this. If your ventures are web apps, my recommendation would be to learn Ruby on Rails. You will be able to build demo apps within a few months of 8-10 hours per week. I started with RailsTutorial.org, w
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by SIK 16y ago
I recently did something similar using anemone to crawl the website, and Hpricot to scrape each individual web page and add to the database. Anemone is great because it can focus your crawl to only url's that match a certain pattern, which
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by SIK 16y ago
What city do you live in? Can you break down the $1.5k and $2k rates?