Life & fun · September 14, 2014
Exploring the US Budget, 1962-2019
Exploring the US Budget, 1962-2019 launched on September 14, 2014 with 69 votes, #781 of 2,087 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.
In plain words
Exploring the US Budget, 1962-2019 is an interactive visualization tool that displays US Federal Budget data spanning nearly six decades. Users can navigate through different years using keyboard arrows, buttons, or a timeline graph to examine spending across categories and agencies. The tool allows drilling down into specific budget line items by clicking on visual elements, with results displayed in sortable tables organized by amount, function, and agency. The data comes from White House sources.
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From the sources
This is a Beta interactive visualization of the US Federal Budget. The data is available from the White House . You can change years by using the left/right keyboard arrows, clicking the "year" buttons toward the upper left and right of the screen, or (if your device has a large enough screen) by clicking on the "mini" graph over time that is at the bottom of the page. With the exception of the deficit and "net interest" rectangles, you can drill down to line items for any year by clicking on the one of the rectangles, which will then show a table, sortable by amount, SubFunction, Agency, or Bureau. For each row of a detail table, you can click on the icon to display an interactive graph…from learnforeverlearn.com
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