[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":350},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-50232312":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":43,"post_text":45,"what":46,"said":61,"maker_in_thread":160,"shape":171,"grid":175,"attempts":311,"same_week":312,"maker_shows":33,"maker_hidden":342,"reader_version":343,"card":344},"50232312","Big Whale Hunting workforce visualisation","I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles","title","Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles","https:\u002F\u002Fbigwhalehunting.com\u002Fworkforce\u002F","bigwhalehunting.com","vfxGer",1792940739,2026,178,49,341,4366,8,"notable","finance_crypto","market cap visualisation","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"s&p 500","market cap","employees per company","data visualisation","curious",-0.167,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":18},3,14,1,26,{"idea":36,"docs":39,"execution":41,"design":42},{"positive":37,"critical":38},2,4,{"positive":40,"critical":33},0,{"positive":40,"critical":37},{"positive":33,"critical":33},[33,40,40,40,33,40,40,40,31,33,33,31,40,40,40,40,40,33,31,31,33,31,40,40,40,44,33,33,31,40,31,40,40,40,40,31,31,31,44,44],5,"I was playing around with visualising the S&P 500 by market cap and decided to add employees to each company's bubble.\n\nWhat surprised me was how empty some of the biggest companies looked.\n\nNvidia is worth $5.2 trillion but employs only 42,000 people. That's around $124 million in market cap per employee. Meanwhile, Accenture employs 814,000 people and is worth $146 billion.\n\nEach stick figure represents 10,000 employees. You can zoom in and explore individual companies.\n\nI wrote a bit more about what I found here: https:\u002F\u002Fbigwhalehunting.com\u002Fblog\u002Fworkforce\u002F\n\nWould be interested to hear what ",{"problem":47,"audience":53,"pricing":53,"motivation":54,"time_to_build":53,"stack":58,"openness":59,"stage":60,"team_size":59},{"value":48,"source":49,"evidence":50},"Shows how many employees large companies have relative to their market cap","maker",[51],{"id":52},"post",null,{"value":55,"source":49,"evidence":56},"Playing with visualising S&P 500 by market cap, then added employees",[57],{"id":52},[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":62,"objections":82,"requests":116,"questions":150,"alternatives":159},[63,75],{"value":64,"source":65,"evidence":66},"Employee-per-market-cap angle is insightful","commenter",[67,71],{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"50235162","ConradKilroy","@vfxGer, Thank you so much for including # of Employees!!! Its so undervalued. Backstory: At my jobsite, there was an amazing seminar called the 'One Day MBA' taught by Prof Noah…",{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},"50233089","samayashar","Welltower and Palantir are doing an amazing job! A comparison with NVIDIA in terms of market cap per employee isn't realistic here, but perks to them for the utility that each…",{"value":76,"source":65,"evidence":77},"Stick figures make empty bubbles compelling",[78],{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},"50235553","bryzaguy","I went straight to the link without reading the description and didn't notice the tiny people added to the center of the circles. Ironically, I was clicking each bubble to find…",[83,94,109],{"value":84,"source":65,"evidence":85},"Employee counts are inconsistent across contract, franchise and holding structures",[86,90],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"50232600","paxy","Number of employees isn't a straightforward calculation. - A lot of companies have part time, seasonal and contract workers (e.g. Amazon and Walmart). For some this even makes up…",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"50233852","lelandfe","Towards the bottom: > Employee counts come from company reports via Yahoo Finance, with Wikipedia used where figures weren't available. They're not necessarily from the same…",{"value":95,"source":65,"evidence":96},"Sector and company inclusion errors, outdated dataset",[97,101,105],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"50233545","RussianBot9580","Definitely some strange inclusions and exclusions. \"Information technology\" has NetApp but not Everpure, even though they have the same market cap and are in the same space.…",{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"50233777","aweb","Agreed, Datadog is missing despite being in the S&P 500 as well",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"50234448","eep_social","Both missing companies were included recently, suggesting to me that the author used an older dataset.",{"value":110,"source":65,"evidence":111},"Scale of 10k per figure looks misleading",[112],{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"50232579","soared","1. The legend uses different icons than the visualization 2. Why would you purposefully make every bubble empty? Change the scale to 1000 employees otherwise it’s deceptive. 10k…",[117,132,139],{"value":118,"source":65,"evidence":119},"Revenue per employee or gross profit view",[120,124,128],{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"50233274","fnord77","I think revenue per employee is more interesting. By this measure, tech companies are minuscule compared to energy and real estate companies. https:\u002F\u002Fi.imgur.com\u002F4DPs1Io.png…",{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"50236023","mehdizare","Market cap per employee is mostly going to reflect whatever multiple the market pays in any given year. Gross profit per employee might be a better indication of what employees…",{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"50245880","hardestfirst","May i ask why you picked market cap instead of revenue per employee? I'm curious how the chart would look with revenue",{"value":133,"source":65,"evidence":134},"Inflation-adjusted constant dollars option",[135],{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"50233426","iandanforth","Very cool! It would be nice to have a constant dollars option. I always like to be able to correct for inflation.",{"value":140,"source":65,"evidence":141},"Larger stick figures and clearer zoom controls",[142,146],{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"50234447","ThrowawayTestr","Cool. I'd make the stick figures a little bigger, hard to see on mobile.",{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"50233515","NooneAtAll5","how do I zoom? there's no + and - buttons and I don't see people icons",[151,155],{"value":152,"source":65,"evidence":153},"Why market cap rather than revenue per employee",[154],{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},{"value":156,"source":65,"evidence":157},"How zoom works",[158],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},[],{"comments":31,"answered":40,"key":161},[162,165,168],{"id":163,"text":164},"50232828","Fair point, I was aware of that and mention it in the accompanying blog https:\u002F\u002Fbigwhalehunting.com\u002Fblog\u002Fworkforce\u002F",{"id":166,"text":167},"50233374","No one is calling this journalism especially not me.",{"id":169,"text":170},"50233310","Berkshire reports employees across its consolidated subsidiaries, while Welltower's 335,000+ operating-partner employees work for separate companies. 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