I made this last night after being inspired by http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1302494...
All the calculations are done with Javascript. Let me know what you think!
All the calculations are done with Javascript. Let me know what you think!
For your own benefit, perhaps some thoughtfully-filtered Adwords or so would help cover those costs and/or make you some ca$h.
For the site itself, keep the simple presentation but perhaps add + signs to allow people to break things out if they wish. Any large program whose share of the budget people love to complain about often turns out to include some things they actually support, so it has excellent education potential.
Discreet links to more advanced presentations like graphs and so forth could later help to build out that initial traffic to become the 'go-to' site for accessible stats, mich like fivethirtyeight.com became well-known for unbiased electoral analysis.
A fun thing might be a time machine that let you look back at tax rates of years past, with the receipt getting increasingly yellowed and/or using more and more antique-looking fonts. By the time you get to 1776 everything is in copperplate :-)
Thanks, I had a feeling people would like this, but had no idea that it'd be this popular. I'm migrating over to Appengine as soon as I can.
> For your own benefit, perhaps some thoughtfully-filtered Adwords or so would help cover those costs and/or make you some ca$h.
I put them up about an hour ago, but took them down because I couldn't see them. Turns out I had adblock turned on. I just pushed ads live.
> Discreet links to more advanced presentations like graphs and so forth could later help to build out that initial traffic to become the 'go-to' site for accessible stats, mich like fivethirtyeight.com became well-known for unbiased electoral analysis.
I think these are all great ideas. I do think a site like this is missing, and we could all stand to benefit from it.
> A fun thing might be a time machine that let you look back at tax rates of years past, with the receipt getting increasingly yellowed and/or using more and more antique-looking fonts. By the time you get to 1776 everything is in copperplate :-)
Hehe, of all the ideas you've had, this is the best. Moving it up in the queue :)
Caslon, surely.
More curious is that using konqueror I get one value but with firefox i get another. Seems to be some bit flipping somewhere, since with firefox I get Miscellaneous mandatory programs $16068258000000004096.00 4096, 16384 , etc
but with konqueror i get: Miscellaneous mandatory programs $16068258000000005000.00
Maybe some bug with the javascript interpreter ?
I have a theory: Things have evolved to try and do everything they can do, because nothing is smart enough to act on foresight alone.
browser differences aside, javascript represents all numbers as floats, so as you attempt to store larger and larger numbers, you will find yourself with less and less accurate data.
i'd bet that some minor difference in order of operations between the JS implementations of FF and konqueror result in the differences you're observing.