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“get over it”.) My thoughts went to all of the above when I first saw: Death and Taxes: A visual look at where your tax dollars go by Jesse Bachman. Here is a smaller version of Jesse’s amazing piece of art: The visual you see... See more » “get over it”.) My thoughts went to all of the above when I first saw: Death and Taxes: A visual look at where your tax dollars go by Jesse Bachman. Here is a smaller version of Jesse’s amazing piece of art: The visual you see above represents how the US government spends it budget (E d i t: The graph shows “2004 Federal Discretionary Budget“, so excludes “fixed costs” such as social security and medicare. Post “entitlements” the graph shows how our elected representatives spend the portion of our money they are allowed to spend.) Talk about representing something extremely complex that perhaps very few people in the US government have a handle on. It took Jesse a full year to produce this visual. Jesse’s self state goal was: “Most people are unaware of how much of their taxes fund our military, and those aware are often misinformed. Well here it is. Laid out, easy to read and compare. With data straight from the White House.” The shrunk down version above does not quite do the visual enough justice, please see the full size version. The first post on that page contains a link to the full version which is 3500×2333 and 1.8 mb. Viewed at the highest resolution your monitor will support I am positive that you’ll be impressed by all the detail. That regardless of your political leanings. Indeed the true majesty of Jesse’s visual, and testament to the hard work it took, is that it is really easy to understand it with very little explanation, I would even go so far as to say that it requires no explanation at all. Even the more simplest of brains (mine) to the most complex of brains (say Dr. Hawking) would find insights right away (he sooner than I of course : )). Each of us will see this visual and interpret something different, above you see details of spending on education and NASA. The author raises these questions: * Why do we spend more on jets than we do on public housing? * Why is the Endowment for the Arts so small? * What’s with all this foreign military financing? You will see other things that you might find interesting. Without betraying my political thoughts I can say that for me this was a surprising piece of data in the discussion that is on the deviantart website: “The US Institute of Peace receives 27 million dollars next year. The Defence Department receives 560 … billion.” See less »

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From the list : Office Work Help by albint

Nice blog entry of visualization techniques used other than the excel

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