Budget Climb - Brid's Eye View of Government Spending

Here's a clever little application that incorporates a Kinect sensor and something that's a pretty serious issue for the majority of our US visitors, the federal budget. Climb higher and higher to see how much was spent in comparison to any particular department 26 years ago. Enjoy climbing that military budget column! I'm sure you'll get quite the workout by the time you make it to the top of that one.

Budget Climb is a physically interactive data environment where we can explore 26 years of federal spending - giving us a unique perspective on how our government spends our money.

In order to explore the data we must exert physical effort, revealing how the budget is distributed in a novel and tangible way. Using our arms and the Microsoft Kinect, we can climb to the tops of our data cubes and look out onto the budget metropolis in the distance.

Source: Vimeo - Budget Climb