Shrinking Banks – Shocking Visualization
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
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Dario Meli
Posted by Dario Meli
Beyond “WOW” there isn’t much more to be said about this image, although, I would like to see it include 5 of the banks that were least affected in this mess.

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January 22nd, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Shocking… but misleading.
The circles are drawn proportional to diameter, not area. The area is half the diameter squared, so it produces a much larger effect. Classic way to lie with statistics/graphs. It makes other banks look much worse off than JPM.
The numbers alone still tell a grim tale. Shame the graph isn’t honest.