Nice dashboard :) Out of curiosity, where did you get the data re: who is furloughed from which departments? I have been working on a similar data graphic but had to collect that data in a Google Doc by hand with a couple colleagues from the OMB's list of contingency plans. I'd be curious to compare my data with yours.
FWIW I'm working on visualizing it with a treemap instead of bar charts - my progress is here but still has lots of design work left to do:
FWIW I'm working on visualizing it with a treemap instead of bar charts - my progress is here but still has lots of design work left to do:
https://github.com/dandelany/shutdown2013
http://cognitiveharmony.net/experiments/shutdown2013/