In an effort to shine some light into the United States government, Sunlight Labs is launching, not one, but six contests where you can win $5,000. The contests are:
- Data Visualization of Sunlight Community Data
- Visualization of Data from the Federal Budget and/or USASpending.gov
- Visualization of Recovery.gov Data
- Visualization of How a Bill Becomes a Law
- Visualization of Congressional Rules/Floor Procedures
- Redesign of a Government Form
- Redesign of a .Gov website
Sunlight Labs is pleased to announce our latest contest — “Design for America.” This 10 week long design and data visualization extravaganza is focused on connecting the talents of art and design communities throughout the country to the wealth of government data now available through bulk data access and APIs, and to help nurture the field of information visualization. Our goal is simple and straightforward — to make government data more accessible and comprehensible to the American
public.
I already have a winning entry. For the visualization of How a Bill Becomes a Law, I would use the “I’m just a Bill” from School House Rock. Now you are going to have that song stuck in your head all day.
via Design for America.
