Tag Archives: billion
Client work: World Series of Poker
Posted on 15. Jul, 2010 by admin.
I knew poker had been getting big for some time now, but I had no idea the amount of money involved was so huge. $8 million for one tournament? I read recently that the team salary cap for Major League Soccer is only $2.4 million. I know it’s soccer.. but still. Enjoy.
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Flowcapping: Visualizing One Trillion Dollars (video)
Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by admin.
Another flowcap of the process of creating an infographic. This time its much shorter, about 1 minute. It turns out that watching the creation non-linear infographics is not as exciting in fast motion as more of the all-in-one infographics. The previous flowcap video is here. View in fullscreen. As you can see this project was [...]
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$700 Billion bailout… so who's paying?
Posted on 25. Sep, 2008 by admin.
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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Visualizing One Billion Dollars.
Posted on 30. May, 2008 by admin.
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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Total military and national security spending in the U.S. federal budget.
Posted on 20. Apr, 2008 by admin.
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 Defense, and there are [...]
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