{"id":3124,"date":"2009-09-26T23:04:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T03:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2015-03-18T23:27:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:27:31","slug":"aside-the-billion-dollar-gram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/26\/aside-the-billion-dollar-gram\/","title":{"rendered":"Aside: The Billion Dollar Gram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love effective visualizations, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/visualizations\/the-billion-dollar-gram\/\">the Billion Dollar gram<\/a> is a very simple and effective way to help normal people understand the relative sizes of some of the ridiculously large dollar values attached to various government, corporate, and public initiatives. As someone who enjoys data visualization I appreciate it. As a human being, I can&#8217;t get past that items across the top row without feeling a combination of almost blinding rage and terrible, terrible shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I love effective visualizations, and the Billion Dollar gram is a very simple and effective way to help normal people understand the relative sizes of some of the ridiculously large dollar values attached to various government, corporate, and public initiatives. As someone who enjoys data visualization I appreciate it. As a human being, I can&#8217;t get past that items across&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/26\/aside-the-billion-dollar-gram\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[331,2],"tags":[39,57,265,240,40,268,241],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-aside","category-political","tag-bush","tag-children","tag-economics","tag-iraq","tag-oil","tag-visualization","tag-war","post_format-post-format-aside","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-Oo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}