Change We Can Visualize

Our project will incorporate data from APIs in order to visualize the federal government’s influence and spending on projects.  This incorporates variables such as money, time, elected officials and their voting/proposals, contributions and from whom, the various projects, and how successful the projects are.  Sunlight Labs is currently running a contest that asks people to [...]

Determining who our users are is an important first step before creating an information visualization. For us, this step was a little difficult as we have not yet decided which data set to use for our visualizations. This means that depending on the dataset we choose, our target users may change. Nonetheless, we decided to [...]