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Death & Taxes: 2011 RELEASED!

Posted on 22. Apr, 2010 by Jess.

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Another year, another huge and detailed visual record of the federal government.
Death & Taxes has officially been released, and it has its own domain.
http://www.DeathandTaxesPoster.com
I created its own domain to keep it simple and since its my flagship product, it deserved a flagship site. I hope you like it.
There are some cool new features of this [...]

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Death and Taxes 2010 - Data only.

Posted on 16. Jun, 2009 by Jess.

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So the data collection and processing part of the project is finished. I decided to post up the data that I will be using so peope can read it, check it, or do whatever they like. I will pretty much be importing into the poster as is, though I still need to add a bunch [...]

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The Fall of GM - a visual guide

Posted on 05. Jan, 2009 by Jess.

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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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Visualizing One Billion Dollars.

Posted on 30. May, 2008 by Jess.

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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 [...]