Sillicon Valley companies as 100 people

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Based on the amazing work of Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting


Reveal surveyed 211 of the largest Silicon Valley tech companies that were required to submit EEO-1 diversity reports to the federal government for 2016.

Only 23 did. Find out who didn't here. They compiled the data and wrote a great article about it.

The data is available here under the Open Database License.

How to read ?

A company is represented by 100 rectangles, each rectangle would be one person. The rectangle color represent its race.
Here we would have 60 white people, 10 asian people, 10 black or african american people, 10 latino people and 10 people from other minorities.

It's actually a representation of the proportion of each race within the company (1 rectangle = 1%).
The largest proportion is shown first, from the top left.

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Made by Edith Visualize (@edithmaulandi) for #SWDChallenge April.

Code and aggregated data are available on github. For the purpose of the 100 people display, percentage for each categories expect other minorities have been rounded up and induce a small variation. Original and adapted data can be found in data folder.

With the help of Isotope.js and d3-legend of Susie Lu and Flowing Data tutorial about small multiples.

Inspired by Mary Zam work on Legal Status of Same-sex Marriage in the United States for the February 2018 reddit dataVis battle.