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Recovery.gov Heat Map

Over the summer I worked on several Flash Apps to help track and visualize $800B in recovery spending by the US Government. My favorite is the app on the home page. This little guy has over 50 sprites, each for a state, hooked up to an XML feed… right from the data vaults of the US Government. We apply a bit of statistics to determine the mean, standard deviation, and T values for each state, put them into 5 buckets, choose an appropriate color, and voila. Working with TMP Government, Axispoint, and others was a pleasure. The team crammed months of work into weeks, toiling on weekends and nights. It felt just like a startup but within the aura of the US Government.

The site went live today at Recovery.gov.

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