Last week, I wrote about boot camp and made the link between the PIC and the Military explicit.

Today, I saw an interesting example of data visualization by a design studio called Moustache. They have developed a short film called Softwar to illustrate how much the military budget can buy. They focus only on the base military budget of $549 billion dollars and leave out the additional dollars that are appropriated to cover the wars which is almost $200 billion dollars more. The film shows thousands of tanks piled on top of each other to show how much the military budget can buy. That would be 88,548 tanks at $6.2 million per tank (h/t to flowing data).

Softwar from Moustache on Vimeo.

Local, State and Federal Governments spent nearly $75 billion on “corrections” in 2009. I wish that someone would create a similar visualization of how much notebooks that could buy….