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Many aspects of this graphic can apply to the rest of the Big Three but I focused on GM since they are in the most dire position.  GM has many woes, the least of which is a shortfall of money, so why do people think that an infusion of cash will do anything but prolong [...]

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If you haven’t seen Jessica’s Hagy’s site Indexed, you need to head over there.  For visual thinkers, it is a great way to decouple yourself from the over stimulation of most modern infographics.  If you visit her site as often as I do, you begin to reduce everything to an x and y axis.  Friends [...]

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You may have seen this around.  It’s some client work I did for mint.com, originally posted here.  This financial crisis is quite difficult to pin down because there are many factors involved, chain reactions, and negligence abound.  So I created this primer to help people get their heads around it.  It is a loose flow [...]

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Here is some client work I did for SloshSpot.  Essentially it’s one point of data, the amount of beer consumed in the US annually, only it is envisioned in several different ways.  Very large numbers are difficult to conceptualize and very large volumes, areas ,and other measurements are even further out of the minds grasp.  [...]

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UPDATE — THIS POSTER IS CURRENTLY ON SALE ( CLICK HERE)
Inspired by the genuine progress of this country, I created this typographic mashup of the history of slavery, racism, and the progress of African Americans.

Please link to the actual post and not the image itself.  Thanks!
UPDATE: This has been created into a stunning 16” x [...]

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I created this little pictogram to sum up the economy lately.  I think it works on many levels.  If it doesn’t make sense to you, that is OK.

p.s.
All content from WallStats.com and blog have been banned from Digg.com.  According to Digg’s TOS, they do not allow websites that promote a product.  It doesn’t matter [...]

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A few weeks ago, I covered some of the bizarre and obtuse visuals coming out of the difference branches of the military.  Well today, I posed some questions to a member of the Pentagon’s “Engine Room;” a new group within the Department of Defense’s Comptroller’s Office whose focus is briefing creation and analytics.
The Engine Room’s [...]

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So the Gov’ment is on a shopping spree.  Well like all post shopping hangovers, the bill can be quite sobering.  So here is a little graphic to explain just who is paying for this bailout and how much.

The data and forumlas used were crafted when I was doing research on the “Who pays?” section [...]

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In my research for the Death and Taxes poster I come across all sorts of charts and graphs.  The are graphics produced by people in the pentagon, a half trillion dollar enterprise.  While some are simple and to the point, others have gone off the deep end of visualization methods.
Next week I will be interviewing [...]

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You may have unwittingly named your child after a meme in the fabric of society.  Or you yourself may be nothing more than the product of hive minded parents.
So what’s in a name?
I have always been interested in naming things, it’s one of the reasons why I own so many unused domain names.  And the [...]

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So I was researching the U.S. troops strength in Iraq since there was all this talk of surging and pulling out.  Turns out there isn’t really any good visuals of it, and the raw data leaves alot to be desired.  So I went about creating my own chart.
I would first like to thank the Statistical [...]

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Keeping America competitive requires affordable energy. And here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world. The best way to break this addiction is through technology. Since 2001, we have spent nearly $10 billion to develop cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable alternative energy [...]

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The Death and Taxes poster contains a lot of information and is great for putting federal spending in context.  However, the de-facto unit of measure is one billion dollars.  I realized that people often have a hard time grasping just what one billion dollars is.  So to provide further context to the poster, I am [...]

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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. ”

- Thomas Jefferson
The American people are already invested in their government, yet they are clueless or worse, misinformed, about their investment. If people actually knew how their tax dollars were spent, in their name, they [...]

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So I was invited over to Microsoft’s HQ in Redmond, WA, to talk with Larry Larsen, a Microsoft evangelist about Death and Taxes and the Deep Zoom application of it.
Here is the video. It uses SilverLight which is basically Microsoft’s answer to Adobe’s Flash. You can get SilverLight here and I highly recommend [...]

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On April 15th, Tax Day, I, Jess Bachman, appeared on the Martha Stewart Show.
It was an odd segment for her show which typically deals with crafts, gardening and cooking. Indeed I was in between Elizabeth Vargas who was cooking prosciutto and peas, and eco-friendly gardening. The experience was great in [...]

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Every year people ask me, “Just what is all this military/national security spending you list?”. Well I have decided to type it all out once and for all. What qualifies spending as ‘military’ or ‘national security’ is subjective. There is strict interpretations which only includes funding with in the Department of [...]

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