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In July of 2009, ABC News reported that the General Services Administration (GSA) planned to spend $18 million to redesign the Recovery.gov website over the next five years. Paradoxically, the website was established to bring transparency to the distribution of federal funds and lessen the popular view that overspending by the federal government was prevalent. James A. Williams, commissioner of GSA's Federal Acquisition Service said of the renovation, "Recovery.gov 2.0 will use innovative and interactive technologies to help taxpayers see where their dollars are being spent."
Here at InetSoft, we were aghast to learn about the amount of money and time being invested to make this website interactive; we are after all, a leading provider of interactive analytic visualization software. So we took it upon ourselves to try to recreate the interactive features on Recovery.gov in as little time and with as little money as possible.
Unfortunately, all of our software engineers were fully involved in other projects, so we asked our Marketing Associate, Mike, the least technical person on our staff (he has trouble dialing out from his phone), to try and recreate the interactive features on the Recovery.gov site using our Visualize Free service. Within two weeks, or just $1000 of billed time, he was able to produce the following visualizations.
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