{"id":4751,"date":"2009-07-16T11:23:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T11:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog2.fusioncharts.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2026-09-25T17:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:15:25","slug":"barack-obama-uses-fusioncharts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fusioncharts.com\/blog\/barack-obama-uses-fusioncharts","title":{"rendered":"How Barack Obama Used FusionCharts for Data Storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were late to pick it up, but this one is too good to let go:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-center\"><a class=\"image-wrap\" title=\"Barack Obama using FusionCharts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23469\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Barack-Obama-using-FusionCharts-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-center\">Source: Federal IT Dashboard Blog<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is Barack Obama using the Federal IT Dashboard where FusionCharts has been used extensively for data visualization.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. President, we hope you liked what you saw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were late to pick it up, but this one is too good to let go:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[43],"coauthors":[719],"class_list":["post-4751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","tag-barack-obama"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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