Sunlight Foundation Receives $4m For Obama Era Data Visualization

Randall Hand 15 years ago Comments Off 288

The Omidyar Foundation has just givem $4m to the Sunlight Foundation to develop new web-based data visualization tools of government data. They’ve been at this for a while, and in fact this is Omidyar’s second investment, the first one also being $4m.

The Omidyar Foundation has a long history of funding experimental new projects on the web, from nonprofit grants like this one for Sunlight to investments in ground-breaking private companies like Digg, Seesmic, Wikia and Linden Labs.

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Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a computer graphics programmer and news junky that's been working in the field for the last 15 years. He's responsible for visualizations generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, ytnef, mullion support in ParaView, and VizWorld.com.