Visualizing Obama’s Budget Request for 2011

The Wall Street Journal has a few infographics online showing the President’s request for the 2011 Budget.

The Obama administration Monday released its budget request for the 2011 fiscal year, which begins October 1, 2010.  The deficit for this year would surge to a record-breaking $1.56 trillion, topping last year’s then unprecedented $1.41 trillion gap.  All figures in billions unless noted.

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Obama Budget Request for 2011. via Chart Porn

This story written by 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.