More Cool Visualizations of Tax Freedom Day

Last month, the folks over at Click here to see all of the visualizations that were featured. Here’s a sample of them:
An interactive dashboard using Tableau Software:

An interactive calendar interface:

An online dashboard tool:

And, a graph showing the correlation between Tax Freedom Day and poverty:

P2P Lending Could Come to Banks

Not too long ago, I jumped on the P2P lending bandwagon, giving Lending Club a try. There are a number of P2P lending sites, allowing for variations that include microloans to the poverty-stricken and student loan P2P lending that focuses on helping students with college costs. And now, if Prosper has its way, it will [...]

Virginia DOT: Fund Our Bonuses or Risk Death

Tertium Quids uncovers an example of the Washington Monument ploy in Virginia, where the Virginia Department of Transportation has had difficulty justifying $200,000 in bonuses as they reduce their workforce:
For an agency that routinely cries poverty, this is rich. But who knew that bonuses make the difference between life and death?
“A structural bridge engineer, a [...]

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