America's money data is public, but it is buried in awkward government APIs that return cryptic tables. The Treasury dashboard fixes that with a single web page that does all the work inside your browser: it fetches the numbers straight from the Treasury's public API and draws them as charts. There is no server, no account, no API key, and no database — just one HTML file you can open and read.
What you get: four headline cards (total national debt plus its daily change, debt held by the public, this year's deficit so far, and the latest daily cash movement), then six panels — a twelve-month debt chart, spending versus income bars, interest-rate lines, operating-cash flow, a nine-currency exchange table, and a calendar of upcoming data releases. One honest detail is baked in everywhere: the cash dataset has no balance row, so the page says “net change” and never “balance”. Labels you can trust matter as much as numbers you can see.
Students: this is proof you can ship a hiring-manager-impressive live data product with zero backend — let the browser do the fetching and spend your effort on clarity. Hiring managers: it is evidence of data literacy, restraint, and follow-through, verified the thrifty way — the page checks its own panels in a headless browser instead of hiding behind a test framework.
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