Sunlight Labs

The Contractor Food Web: Visualizing the flow of Recovery Act dollars to defense contractors

This interactive network map depicts a network of 3000 defense-related contracts among 2700 primary funding offices, contracting corporations and subcontractors reported as receiving funds. Nodes indicate organizations, The size of the nodes is relative to the ...

Geobarra.org was made by Ben Cohen, Michael Lissner and Connor Riley. In this project we have created a dynamic visualization that can be used to query and analyze data from recovery.gov both numerically and geographically.

We have used open-source web technologies to build our visualization, and users can ...

Recovery Review is a visualization and crowd source project for providing maximum transparency to the data provided as part of the The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, commonly known as the economic stimulus. Created for the Sunlight Foundation “Design For America” contest, this application allows users to search ...

After looking through the federal budget and seeing some of the emphasis they put on the importance of job creation I thought it would be fun to take a look at the effect that federal grant money has on job creation in all of the states.

I've only had ...

Dashboards created from the data on the Recovery.gov website at a fraction of the cost and time that was invested in the originals, and with some significant improvements. More information at the link...

A simple visualization app which shows which congressional districts are getting the most out of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The app allows relative visual comparisons between districts on the basis of Recovery Act awards, estimated income tax burden, or a net evaluation of the two. It also shows ...

Within recovery.gov, money has been allocated by the Department of Labor to help unemployed workers and struggling Americans bridge the gap between employment opportunities. Taking the numbers from the Employment and Training Administration's grant, I was able to construct an infographic that breaks down how much money (per ...