March 16, 2010, 10:08 am
Tufte Crosses the Delaware
by Henry Woodbury
Filed under: Charts and Graphs, Current Events
Information design guru Edward Tufte has been called to serve on the Recovery Independent Advisory Board, an advisory panel to the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board. No news yet if the Advisory Board gets a board.
The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board was created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to track stimulus funding and help prevent fraud, waste, and mismanagement.
I’m doing this because I like accountability and transparency, and I believe in public service. And it is the complete opposite of everything else I do. Maybe I’ll learn something.
I blogged about problems with data presentation at USASpending.gov, one of the Recovery Board’s web sites back in September. The data handling problems identified then by Seth Grimes appear to be fixed, but the 3D pie chart is still in use. Hopefully its days are numbered.
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