  The monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Report is widely
anticipated by economists, journalists, and politicians as it is used to
forecast the economic condition of the United States. The report has broad
impact on public and corporate economic confidence; however, the online access
to this data employs outdated techniques, using a PDF format containing solely
text and fixed tabular information. Creating an interactive interface for
dynamic discovery on the BLS website could elicit more dialogue between the
public and government spheres, drawing more traffic to government websites and
triggering greater civic engagement. Our work suggests that the implementation
of interactive visual analysis techniques to enable dynamic discovery leads to
rapid interpretation of data as well as provides the means to explore the data
for further insights. This paper presents two inspirational prototypes: a
dashboard of interactive visualizations and an interactive time series
explorer, allowing for temporal and spatial analyses and enabling users to
combine data sets to create their own customized visualization.
