When Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch went kablooie in the financial crisis, what happened to all their employees? Thanks to the magic of LinkedIn data, their Chief Scientist DJ Patil can answer that question: they went to the surviving banks:
It's a great, if tantalizingly incomplete visualization -- I'd love to see this with "Other (non-bank) employers" (even if it is just a "handful" of the set, as Patil mentions) and "Unemployed" as additional leaf nodes.
LinkedIn blog: Where did all the people go from the collapsed financial institutions?
It is a nice, if somewhat obvious, visualization.
I agree with your observation: it would have been great to see how many decided to leave the banking world to pursue other things, and what some of those new pursuits were? After all, it was a once-in-a-lifetime upheaval for the people involved and may have led (some of) them to do some serious soul-searching.
Posted by: Rama Ramakrishnan | February 19, 2010 at 11:41
Nice vizualisation, somehow related to the "best statistical graphic ever drawn" about the (disastrous) Russian campaign of Napoleon. The current graph is missing or wasting several dimensions like time (how long did they take to join another company/bank? how long did they stay?), size (what happened to the "others"?) and location. I think salary changes could also have been included as an extra dimension, while the colour code for the bank of origin does not help that much...
Posted by: Xi'an | February 19, 2010 at 13:09