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Where did all the bankers from collapsed institutions go?

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Re: Where did all the bankers from collapsed institutions go?

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I just want to note how delighted I am by these "data porn" posts that show up every once in a while. The last notable one I remember was OKCupid's analysis of communication success correlated with user photograph traits. Is there a site devoted to Tufteian data visualizations and analyses like this? I'd bookmark the hell out of its RSS feed.

Re: Where did all the bankers from collapsed institutions go?

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post #2

I just want to note how delighted I am by these "data porn" posts that show up every once in a while. The last notable one I remember was OKCupid's analysis of communication success correlated with user photograph traits. Is there a site devoted to Tufteian data visualizations and analyses like this? I'd bookmark the hell out of its RSS feed.

I'm not sure we'll see many more of the OkCupid posts hit the front page. I think some sort of filter may have been added.

I recently submitted their latest: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129738 and it got upvoted a lot in the first hour (more than others that did make the front page) but for some reason never made it to the front.

Which is a bit sad because I think it was their most interesting one yet. (And the visual aids were extremely well done.)

Re: Where did all the bankers from collapsed institutions go?

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post #2

I just want to note how delighted I am by these "data porn" posts that show up every once in a while. The last notable one I remember was OKCupid's analysis of communication success correlated with user photograph traits. Is there a site devoted to Tufteian data visualizations and analyses like this? I'd bookmark the hell out of its RSS feed.

http://flowingdata.com/ is a pretty nice blog about data visualization. Both for reposts and commentary of other sources, and some original content. Some of http://flowingdata.com/category/data-underload/ posts are pretty amusing.

Re: Where did all the bankers from collapsed institutions go?

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As good as it looks, anyone that doesn't know it's the banks at the top of that image that collapsed (like, say, a european like myself) is going to be very confused by this chart.

It's explained in the text but for the graphic to more sense on it's own, some sort of arrows would've been nice.

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