2026 Use Cases

Social Impact of Government Programs

Challenge: Analyze the relationship between government spending on specific programs (e.g., Social Security, Medicaid) and social indicators like poverty rates, unemployment, or access to healthcare.

Goal/Objective: Identify which programs deliver the highest return on investment in terms of societal benefit.

Promote Financial Literacy: Visualizing Government Expenditures

Challenge: Develop innovative and interactive visualizations using data from sources like FiscalData.Treasury.gov and usaspending.gov to make government spending more understandable for the public.

Goal/Objective: Promote financial literacy and increase engagement with government-focused datasets.

Government Program Actions Over Time

Challenge: Compare government actions such as appropriations, laws, executive orders, etc., and the results of those actions over a period of time (e.g., since a change in administration, over the last six months/year)

Goal/Objective: Provide fact-based input and analysis on government actions and their progress or lack of progress, and results.