Workshop Notes

August 11th 2007

GroupNotesSaturday

• Tantek Çelik: We Are All Actors workshop blog post on workshop start, pointers.
• 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

Lunchtime notes:

• Everything in the budget has at least someone that wants it. If you can harness that incentive, that desire for that item, and provide tools/services with low enough barrier to entry so that someone can annotate that item, it will naturally happen.

• I tried to find the federal budget online. I google'd for thomas federal budget and searched within the thomas website itself. Can someone find a link to the federal budget and post here? Many thanks!

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