Sunlight Labs

A visualization that demonstrates the amount of funding that is allocated for contracting agencies. The main purpose of this is to show the massive spending that goes into defense every year compared to the much smaller amounts that go into other sectors that have a greater impact on society, such ...

This submission is a website describing various aspects of the recovery data. It is a collaboration between members of the statistical graphics working group in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University.

Everyone needs to deal with taxes and yet it’s still one of the most overwhelming and unclear processes that we have to deal with each year.

So we set out to redesign the IRS website, to help the IRS achieve its mission to “provide America’s taxpayers [with] top ...

This is a flash data visualization that parses a large data set of the White House visitor logs, and outputs the names of who in the White House gets visited the most often (bigger the name, the more popular), including an aggregation of the reasons for visits.

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WhoPaidThem aims to challenge our individual and collective preconceptions about political funding through a series of interactive graphics.

As an alternative to showing visualizations of funding data, WhoPaidThem presents a series of graphs and lists that invite people to make educated guesses about how funding is distributed, then compare their ...

A handy guide to the U.S. Senate floor procedures, simplified and visualized so they are easy to understand. The project is also available in mobile and PDF versions.

Government forms are often poorly designed, packed with unnecessary information, and created with little or no consideration for the person filling them out.

The process of getting a passport or citizenship itself (and plenty other government services) is complicated enough; it should not be further convoluted by faulty a application ...

An infographic that seeks to visually explain the complex process of how our laws are made in Washington, based on the official process document posted on the Library of Congress website. A unique visual structure, vibrant colors and a layer system are used to differentiate primary, secondary and tertiary information ...

Our country’s spending and debt situation explained in a fast-paced motion graphics video (run time is 2:20 minutes)

Where we live matters to our health.

County Sin Rankings helps you quickly and easily understand the health of your community. There are many factors that determine the health of a county. County Sin Rankings takes a humorous look at seven health factors as related to the seven deadly sins ...