Visualizations : 2005 Earmarks ($) by State Per Capita (Updated May 31, 2007)

Can't see the visualization? Download the latest Java plugin here. On Macs: best viewed in Safari.

Created by: Josh@Sunlight Created on: Friday June 08, 10:49 AM

Data file: Earmarks ($) by State (Per Capita)

Data source: Sunlight Labs (2005 OMB Earmarks Database)

This data set
has not yet been rated.

| cancel

	If you "watch" a visualization or dataset, you'll be notified of new comments on your watchlist page. Please log in to "watch" this.	Clicking this icon will let you add this to one of your hubs. This is a good way to organize a set of visualizations or datasets on a particular topic or theme. You need to be logged in and be a member of at least one topic hub to be able to add visualizations and data sets to topic hubs.	Give this a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Please login to rate this.
		Please wait...

This visualization
has 2 positive ratings

You can add this visualization to a topic hub!

Being watched by:

saby

Learn more:

About the Bubble Chart

Comments (6)

Anonymous says:

Nice, but I wonder, the colors seem random. This is slightly distracting / unsteadying as it might make one wonder -- do the colors mean something that I don't get?

Why not use colors to depict another dimension, for example if you had a time series of this data you could calculate % growth / (shrinkage) over a given time span. Color-code to show the highest growth rates in (for example) solid black, low growers as gray, stagnant states as white, low shrinkers as pink, high shrinkers as solid red.

Posted Saturday June 09, 8:47 AM
see view for this comment

Anonymous says:

also would be interesting to see this data crossed against party breakdown of representatives/governors, or against competitiveness of recent elections. for example, i noticed PA and FL had decent portions of the pie.

Posted Wednesday July 25, 10:48 AM
see view for this comment

Anonymous says:

Note that Ted Stevens of Alaska is chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. If you want your pork, you must vote for his. Any wonder that Alaska had the largest bubble?

Posted Friday July 27, 8:39 PM
see view for this comment

Anonymous says:

Very useful Site. A great public service. Your use of the bubbles is clever and succinct.

It is also a fact that in the case of federal R&D spending, for example, about 5 states like California, Virginia, New Mexico, Maryland, Massachusetts have already captured 85 percent of the program monies since years ago they were targeted for defense, aerospace and other "industrial policy" projects.

It's true across many other categories of spending. So, the vast number of our citizens do expect their Members of Congress to redress the inequities of a bicoastal bias by bringing home directed spending to their own districts. Why were the mostly wasteland areas of California developed in the first place? No water, poor land, poor location, etc.?

Posted Friday February 01, 6:27 AM
see view for this comment

Anonymous says:

Hmm. Can we have a version of this that shows earmarks-per-electoral-vote (instead of per-capita)?

Posted Monday September 15, 8:16 PM
see view for this comment

Anonymous says:

This is a great help. I'm doing a report against earmarking and this is a great source. Thank you!

Posted Sunday September 28, 2:15 PM
see view for this comment

Visualizations : 2005 Earmarks ($) by State Per Capita (Updated May 31, 2007)

Being watched by:

Learn more:

Comments (6)

Post a comment as Anonymous [Sign in using alphaWorks ID]