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thatrailsguy··on Firepoker.io - Planning Poker built with AngularJS and Firebase
Very nice.

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

thatrailsguy··on Firepoker.io - Planning Poker built with AngularJS and Firebase
This is a great idea (for persistent url).
thatrailsguy··on Show HN: govuptime.com
I think the only source for that data would be through the OMB, but I'm not sure where you could find it.
thatrailsguy··on Show HN: govuptime.com
Mind if we add this to the site?
thatrailsguy··on Show HN: govuptime.com
Thank dvito for compiling. This is a great visualization.
thatrailsguy··on Show HN: govuptime.com
Is there a good js library for doing this style chart?
thatrailsguy··on Show HN: govuptime.com
It's also logarithmic.
thatrailsguy··on Show HN: govuptime.com
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.

thatrailsguy··on Show HN: govuptime.com
I talked to dvito, he said he compiled it by hand, so he might incorporate your data into ours.
thatrailsguy··on Show HN: govuptime.com
But very hard to calculate. If we had a solid source of information on this, I could add it.
thatrailsguy··on Show HN: govuptime.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dvito is one of the creators.
thatrailsguy··on Show HN: govuptime.com
They fall under the Department of the Treasury.
thatrailsguy··on Show HN: govuptime.com
The other guys that did most of the work will weigh in in a couple of hours. I just wrote the hour calculation.
thatrailsguy··on Show HN: govuptime.com
I'll look into this.
thatrailsguy··on Show HN: govuptime.com
That's a great idea.
thatrailsguy··on Show HN: govuptime.com
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