1. 1 Build the White House Staff Salaries in the Cloud Brand Niemann US EPA July 3, 2010 http://semanticommunity.net Disclaimer: These slides do not reflect the views of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and does not constitute endorsement by the EPA of the standards or products mentioned.

2. 2 Overview The Challenge The Socrata Program The Expert and His Advice The Cloud Tools The Inspiration The Data Sources Other Sources of Data The Process The Results Comments Acknowledgements References

3. 3 The Challenge White House Salaries: Who’s Making the Top Paychecks? July 02, 2010 7:20 PM ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports:ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports The White House has submitted its annual report to Congress listing the title and salary of every White House office employee. Twenty-nine-year-old speechwriter Jon Favreau, for example, rakes in the top salary, $172,000, just as much as Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, senior advisors David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett and press secretary Robert Gibbs. New social secretary Julianna Smoot makes $150,000 – more than her predecessor, Desiree Rogers, whose salary last year was $113,000. The president, by comparison, makes $400,000 a year. Shortly after taking office, President Obama ordered a pay freeze on senior White House staffers who made $100,000 a year or more -- an order officially called the Presidential Memorandum Regarding Pay Freeze. Within his State of the Union address this year, President Obama extended the freeze on the pay for top government officials and added political appointees.President Obamapolitical appointees Here’s a link – with a searchable data base by name – of White House employees’ salaries: http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-r...l-records/2010 -Sunlen Miller http://federaldata.wik.is/White_House_Salaries#The_Challenge

4. 4 The Challenge http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/annual-records/2010 See Next Slide

5. 5 The Challenge Socrata’s More Views: –Average Salary by Employee Position –Employees by Type –Average Salary and Number of Staff at Each Title –Spending by Employee Status –Employee Breakdown by Status –Total Salary Spending by Status ABC News Names: Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, senior advisors David Axelrodand Valerie Jarrett, press secretary Robert Gibbs, and new social secretary Julianna Smoot. Just do this with Spotfire’s Multiple Visualizations (Summary Table, Cross Table, Table, and Scatter Plot) and Bookmarks (Detailee, Employee, and Employee (part-time)). http://federaldata.wik.is/White_House_Salaries#The_Challenge

6. 6 The Socrata Program http://www.socrata.com/

7. 7 The Socrata Program Socrata: Making Data Social - social data discovery, a category of Web solutions that enable national, state, and local governments to achieve new levels of transparency and citizen participation while significantly lowering the costs of serving online data. Socrata calls its service of reorganizing the data into easy-to-read, interactive charts and graphs "social data discovery.“ –"The data is valuable, but the social data is valuable as well. It's one thing to put the data online, but it's another thing to actually get some civic feedback loop. Socrata makes data.gov easier to understand.” Source: Socrata CEO Kevin Merritt. http://federaldata.wik.is/White_House_Salaries#The_Challenge

8. 8 The Expert and His Advice Edward Tufte Presidential appointment announced by White House, March 5, 2010. announced by White House Tufte Comment on iPhone interface design: Better to have users looking over material adjacent in space within our eyespan rather than stacked in time. This is especially the case for statistical data, where the fundamental analytical task is to make comparisons. Also see page 159 in the book reference below.Comment on iPhone interface design http://federaldata.wik.is/White_House_Salaries#References

9. 9 The Cloud Tools http://cloud.mindtouch.com/

10. 10 The Cloud Tools http://federaldata.wik.is/White_House_Salaries

11. 11 The Cloud Tools http://spotfire.tibco.com/

12. 12 The Cloud Tools http://ondemand.spotfire.com/public/Help/index.htm

13. 13 The Inspiration H1N1 Spread Courtesy of TIBCO Spotfire. See Web Player.Web Player

14. 14 The Data Sources http://federaldata.wik.is/@api/deki/files/1523/=2010_Report_to_Congress_on_White_House_Staff.csv

15. 15 Other Sources of Data http://semanticommunity.net/ See White House Visitor Database

16. 16 The Process The Basic Steps: –Inventory Data Sources and Plan Application –Prepare and Import Data and Metadata –Implement Layout and Analytics –Add Bookmarks and Create Data Stories –Publish and Test in Web Player –Get Feedback and Improve First create visualizations, faceted search (filters), and analytics for each individual data source and then look for relationships between the data sources. http://federaldata.wik.is/White_House_Salaries#The_Process

17. 17 The Results This is the tenth part of Put Your Desktop in the Cloud to Support the Open Government Directive and Data.gov/semantic, April 19, 2010. The author followed Edward Tufte's advice on interface design: "Better to have users looking over material adjacent in space within our eyespan rather than stacked in time. This is especially the case for statistical data, where the fundamental analytical task is to make comparisons“. The White House Staff Salaries were organized in adjacent visualizations in Spotfire Analytics: Navigation and Metadata, Summary Table, Cross Table, Table, and Scatter Plot. The author followed a six step process and results are shown in the slides and many more are possible with the open, interactive, and creative environment offered by Mindtouch and Spotfire. http://federaldata.wik.is/White_House_Salaries#The_Results

18. 18 The Results Spotfire on PC Use Filters Use Bookmarks

19. 19 The Results Spotfire Web PlayerWeb Player Use Filters Use Bookmarks

20. 20 Comments The initial objective to see how fast one could create this basic application using Spotfire's Multiple Visualizations (Summary Table, Cross Table, Table, and Scatter Plot) and Bookmarks (Detailee, Employee, Employee (part-time), and Names). It provides the same results as Socrata's More Views and the ABC News Names(see The Challenge). Please use the Add Comment feature at the bottom of this wiki page to provide feedback and suggest additional analyses you would like to see. To use the Add Comment feature you first need to register by providing your email address. Your privacy will be respected and your email address will not be available to others or used for any other purpose. You can also download the Spotfire File (<100 KB) from this Wiki and a 30-day free evaluation copy from http://spotfire.tibco.com/ and reuse these analyses, add your own data to this file or new Spotfire files that you create. Have fun and give us your feedback! http://spotfire.tibco.com/ http://federaldata.wik.is/White_House_Salaries#Comments

21. 21 Acknowledgements The author acknowledges gratefully Dean Allemang, Cory Casanave, Sean Connors, Mills Davis, Li Ding, David Eng, Lee Feigenbaum, Aaron Fulkerson, Jim Hendler, Ralph Hodgson, Kevin Kirby, Kevin Jackson, Bob Marcus, John McMahon, Richard Murphy, Brand Niemann, Jr., Barry Nussbaum, Matthew Phoenix, Tony Shaw, Jeff Stein, George Strawn, George Thomas, Pete Tseronis, and Edward Tufte. http://federaldata.wik.is/White_House_Salaries#Acknowledgements

22. 22 References Brand L. Niemann, Put Your Desktop in the Cloud to Support the Open Government Directive and Data.gov/semantic, April 19, 2010, Semantic Universe.Semantic Universe Brand L. Niemann, Build Your Own Data.gov (Spotfire) and EPA Microsite (Spotfire) with Semantics and Statistics in the Cloud, May 15, 2010. Slides.Own Data.govSpotfireEPA MicrositeSpotfireSlides Brand L. Niemann, Build Your Community Health Information "Design for America" Using Mindtouch and Spotfire, May 17, 2010. Slides.MindtouchSpotfireSlides Brand L. Niemann, Build EPA’s CASTNET In the Cloud, May 21 and 30, 2010. Slides, Mindtouch, and Spotfire.SlidesMindtouchSpotfire Brand L. Niemann, Build Your Own Data.gov/semantic with Mindtouch and Spotfire in the Cloud: The White House Visitor Database, May 22, 2010. Slides. See Data.gov takes the 'Mumsy' test, FCW, May 26, 2010.Mindtouch SpotfireSlidesFCW Brand Niemann, Build EPA's EPA's Facility Registry System (FRS) and Locational Reference Database with Mindtouch and Spotfire in the Cloud: Virginia, June 1, 2010.MindtouchSpotfire Brand Niemann, Build the UK’s COINS in the Data Science Library Cloud. Mindtouch and Slides. June 9, 2010.MindtouchSlides Brand Niemann, Build EPA's Envirofacts in the Cloud: Virginia FRS, NPL, and TRI. Mindtouch and Slides. June 14, 2010.MindtouchSlides http://federaldata.wik.is/White_House_Salaries#References