Comments on: Shrinking Banks – Shocking Visualization http://www.invokemedia.com/shrinking-banks-shocking-visualization/ Hungry? Here's some food for thought. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:15:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: spinfire http://www.invokemedia.com/shrinking-banks-shocking-visualization/comment-page-1/#comment-22583 spinfire Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:49:31 +0000 http://www.invokemedia.com/?p=563#comment-22583 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. 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.

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