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267 pointsby thatrailsguyvor 13 Jahren168 comments

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Very nice.

Suggestions: Allow more than one moderator and possibly a chat box?

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

This is a great idea (for persistent url).

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

I think the only source for that data would be through the OMB, but I'm not sure where you could find it.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Mind if we add this to the site?

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Thank dvito for compiling. This is a great visualization.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Is there a good js library for doing this style chart?

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

It's also logarithmic.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

It's not attempting to be deceitful. The problem is the DOD has 8x as many employees as the next largest agency. If spaced without a logarithmic scale, the rest of the agencies are so insignificant it doesn't have any effect at all.

To try to avoid the confusion, I'm working on another graph of percentages working for each agency, and a disclaimer about the scaling.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

I talked to dvito, he said he compiled it by hand, so he might incorporate your data into ours.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

But very hard to calculate. If we had a solid source of information on this, I could add it.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dvito is one of the creators.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

They fall under the Department of the Treasury.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

The other guys that did most of the work will weigh in in a couple of hours. I just wrote the hour calculation.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

I'll look into this.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

That's a great idea.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

I've got to ask one of the other guys where he got the data. It's available via json in our project here: https://github.com/dvito/govuptime