In response to the recent NYTimes piece about the process by which the White House sorts through thousands of letters addressed to Obama, I was thinking about the process that they use.
Via visualcomplexity, this is a visualization that I often find myself returning to in my thoughts. It shows the relative leanings of and links among political blogs, with a lot of options for filtering and summarizing the display.
Launch the application here.
A nice 30-minute version of the I.O.U.S.A film is available here.
And a “Citizen’s Guide” resource about our national debt is available here.
This table presents the net worth (midpoint) and income provided in the senators’ personal financial disclosures.
Data Source: Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org)
These donut charts present Obama’s personal income disclosed for the years 2004 to 2007. If text labels are outside the viewing area, right click in each chart and select “Enable Rotation”, and then drag the donuts to rotate them. The total annual figures include only Barack’s income. Spousal (Michelle’s) income is entered as values ending with 9,999; the actual values are undisclosed.
