Sunlight Foundation Contest Winners

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Sunlight Foundation runs a design contest that awards eight $5,000 winners for concrete, built projects: an IRS redesign that merges state and federal data to estimate individual tax bills and show spending trends; Cool Kids at the White House, an interactive Flash timeline of meetings with clickable names; WhoPaysThem, a Java app that graphs campaign money flows; an illustrated, page-by-page explainer of Senate floor rules; a new animation of how laws move through lobbyists and committees; a web passport form; county “sin” rankings; and recovery/usaspending visualizations.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:50Design for America
3. 2:30Tax Bill
4. 4:40Schoolhouse Rock
5. 5:30Law Visualization
6. 6:45County Sin Rankings
7. 7:25Recovery Data
8. 7:50Conclusion

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