Budgets are usually pages and pages of boring text and even more pages and pages of boring numbers. Until Obama came and changed the game. The final 2017 budget that President Obama is presenting to the US public has been explained with copious annotations on Genius. The data is explorable via its own Github project page and Socrata.
It still has pages and pages of boring text and numbers. But tell me, isn’t this the coolest budget you have ever seen? Data journalists all over the world are going to go crazy with these. The interactive possibilities are off the charts, and it should be interesting to see what people do with it in short order.
Of course, you can read through the entire budget the old fashioned way, on the Budget.gov website (yes, reading plaintext on the internet is the new fax) without any interactive thingamajigs getting in your way.
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