Another Sunlight Labs Apps for America honorable mention: Time Machine, a simple and effective visualization for annual government data. They include employment data, which is nice – you can really see the rollercoaster states with a manufacturing economy have been on over the years, and the recent surge in unemployment is disturbing in how quickly it changes the color of the map.
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I’m glad they used such calming pretty colors – teal and rose. Instead of Fire-hydrant-FML-We’re-all-unemployed Red. Coming to a Crayola crayon box near you.
Posted by Chinkerfly on 14 September 2009 @ 3pm