Workshop Notes

August 11th 2007

IlluminatedFederalBudget

GroupNotesSaturday <-- feel free to add notes here

AdditionalNotes -- that weren't in the Group Notes

Additional Useful Details

• Tantek Çelik: We Are All Actors workshop blog post on workshop start, pointers.
• farmsubsidy.org was mentioned as a good example.
• Federal Budget Visualization  Federal Budget in Poster Format
• Pie Chart Approach Pie Chart Format
• 2008 Campaign Finance, State of the Union analysis - examples of data visualization from NYTimes.com
• opensecrets.org - providers of gov't data
• Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON)
• National Priorities Project analyzes and clarifies federal data so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent
• Consolidated Federal Funds Report (CFFR) draws together data from a number of governmental reporting systems and agencies, and provides data on expenditures and obligations for over a thousand federal government programs
• Journalist ethical standards for the New York Times; specifics for Web Pages and Web Logs
• Photos of the workshop at flickr
• Mentions of the workshop at Technorati

August 12th 2007

SundayBrainstorming

GroupNotesSunday

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