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who's getting how much from the government?

 Bailout Breakdown from Associated Press is an interactive applet that lets the user analyze the recipients and amounts of the $700 Billion bailout plan from the American government. The data is presented as a scatterplot with additional information about the representations when the hovers over a plotted item. The markers are color coded to distinguish between pending, pre-approved, approved and paid status. The overall interaction model seems intuitive – both markers an the list items are interactive, the list can easily be filtered using alphabetic characters to reduce the displayed data. The visual design is reduced and does a good job supporting the user to focus on the data.