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This page's design is great and what I thought tufte-ian journalism would have led to. Using the presentation of quasi-mathematical facts in relatively grokkabl

This page's design is great and what I thought tufte-ian journalism would have led to. Using the presentation of quasi-mathematical facts in relatively grokkable formats to explain the state of the world in a way that can update itself several months or years later. Specifically some of the political discussions lately feel like they could use better dashboards. The call to action at the end of this article with three main solutions called out now has some context in several dimensions (time, space, monetary). The doge.gov website for instance would've been a prime candidate for that, like some sort of observablehq.com ability slice and dice a data dashboard. But then you also have to be able to trust the data I suppose.

whattheheckheck 1y ago
Like this? https://www.project2025.observer/ https://www.project2025.observer/
- big_toast 1y ago
  Eh, maybe not quite? I think the budget day article does a good job contextualizing all its data and guides you through it intuitively. It's more like an essay that has the dashboard woven into it. In 4 months if the fees change or BTC price changes etc. the article is still relatively up to date. So I think that project2025 website maybe does the dashboard thing that never really took off. There's lots of open data or government data sites that have dashboards but seem like they became data portals. They never became a broad format for explanation or persuasion. A standard dashboard might be better than nothing. But the tufte-ian dashboard seems like it would have more affordances like this budget day does.
- Tokumei-no-hito 1y ago
  it would be great if each tracked event was linked to a section of the project 2025 language. as it stands, to someone unfamiliar, it is just a list of initiatives the trump admin has completed.
  - zparky 1y ago
    the 'view sources' dropdown on each initiative links to the page in the project 2025 pdf, is this what you'd want?
    - Tokumei-no-hito 1y ago
      wow i completely missed that. thank you

whattheheckheck 1y ago

Like this? https://www.project2025.observer/ https://www.project2025.observer/

big_toast 1y ago
Eh, maybe not quite? I think the budget day article does a good job contextualizing all its data and guides you through it intuitively. It's more like an essay that has the dashboard woven into it. In 4 months if the fees change or BTC price changes etc. the article is still relatively up to date. So I think that project2025 website maybe does the dashboard thing that never really took off. There's lots of open data or government data sites that have dashboards but seem like they became data portals. They never became a broad format for explanation or persuasion. A standard dashboard might be better than nothing. But the tufte-ian dashboard seems like it would have more affordances like this budget day does.
Tokumei-no-hito 1y ago
it would be great if each tracked event was linked to a section of the project 2025 language. as it stands, to someone unfamiliar, it is just a list of initiatives the trump admin has completed.
- zparky 1y ago
  the 'view sources' dropdown on each initiative links to the page in the project 2025 pdf, is this what you'd want?
  - Tokumei-no-hito 1y ago
    wow i completely missed that. thank you