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by SIK 4662 days ago
not sure if you saw that you could click for a graph or double click to see a new treemap of any department. This visualization is built for people to explore what's in each of the departments, not really to compare departments with each other.

For example, you can see that in 2012 that 2.89% of the budget went to education, but if you double click, you can see that only 13.73% of that went to elementary and secondary education.

You can also single click anywhere and see a graph of how things have changed over time. So you can see that in 2009 there was a huge spike in elementary and secondary education, and you can go to 2009 to further investigate, and find there was a "State Fiscal Stabilization Fund" in 2009 that sent $14 billion to education, and then went away.

I think another visualization comparing departments would be pretty cool, and might build that one next.