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		jamesbkel on Feb 19, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Where did all the bankers from collapsed instituti... I'm not sure if the graphic is just confusing, useless or both. They appear to say that BoA and Nomura benefited the most, followed by Barclay's. But the width of the lines to Barclay are the the biggest of all. As far as I can tell from the (very few) numbers they provided, these chart has no quantitative link back to the data. I really hope I'm just missing something, otherwise this is sad coming from 'Data Scientists'. Can anyone enlighten me?

invisible on Feb 20, 2010 [–]

I thought the same thing, but there isn't enough data to suggest that it's wrong. I think that there is a portion "unemployed" a portion "changed careers" and a portion that are too small to individually plot. So that entire graph may only be like 75% of those that were originally at those companies.

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