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Poincare_Confection t1_j8j8yj5 wrote

I think this is a weird way of doing it. If I understand correctly, the jump in Ballmer's line at the end of his tenure (i.e. approaching Feb 2014) is an artificial jump that you as the data visualizer caused by forcing the Ballmer line to go back to where the Nasaq's line is at so that Nadella's portion of the line gets a equal starting point to Nasdaq, yes? The price didn't actually jump up at end of Ballmer's tenure like that, right? That's deceptive, if so, even if the visualization is captioned to try to explain it.

I would've just made two different charts and then put them side by side. One for Ballmer vs Nasaq and a second for Nadella vs Nasdaq. That way you get the intended effect without that unintended deception.

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GeneralNathanJessup t1_j8j8swk wrote

By 2012, Venezuela had nationalized the oil, gas, electricity, telecommunications, food, agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and finance sectors of the economy. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-election-nationalizations/factbox-venezuelas-nationalizations-under-chavez-idUSBRE89701X20121008

Norway's Equinor is 33% owned by Hedge funds, like Black Rock. https://www.equinor.com/investors/our-shareholders

And Bolivia was able to Build a skyscraper for the President to live in with all that money from nationalizing the gas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Grande_del_Pueblo#/media/File:Plaza_Murillo_.jpg

The largest tin producer in Malaysia is Malaysia Smelting Company, which has never been nationalized, and is owned by private investors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straits_Trading_Company

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GeneralNathanJessup t1_j8j5nw7 wrote

>Imagine if everyone in the country benefitted from oil production instead of just a handful of oil executives and shareholders. That would be TERRIBLE

PDVSA, Venezuela's national oil company, only has one shareholder. The government of Venezuela owns PDVSA, all of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDVSA

I am sorry you had to find out this way.

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GeneralNathanJessup t1_j8j59fp wrote

The economic sanctions against Venezuela were super sneaky!

The first economic sanctions occurred in Aug 2017 - https://www.wlrn.org/news/2017-08-25/u-s-imposes-first-economic-sanctions-against-venezuela

But these were no ordinary sanctions! These sanctions travelled back in time to 2011 to cause Venezuela to starve way back then! https://www.cnn.com/2011/12/13/world/americas/venezuela-food-shortages/index.html

Even though oil prices were at some of the highest in recorded history, Venezuela was still starving, which is impossible! https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart

Then The CIA hacked Venezuela's currency printer, increased their money supply by 1,000,000%, causing the world's highest hyperinflation. http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/rngs/VENEZUELA-ECONOMY/010040800HY/index.html

How can real socialism^TM ever hope to succeed against CIA currency hackers and imperialist time machines?

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GeneralNathanJessup t1_j8j4com wrote

Over 7 million Venezuelans have achieved Freedom, by leaving Venezuela. https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/venezuela-emergency.html

Venezuela has very little strategic significance. The country is not "on the way" to anywhere. No vital sea lanes etc. Just a bunch of sour oil.

The Middle East is different. The Middle East sits at the crossroads to 3 continents, and is a vital chokepoint for the entire Eastern Hemisphere. Which is why great powers have been fighting over the area for thousands of years.

Also, the United States didn't steal a drop of Iraq's oil, unless the soldiers were sneaking it out in their canteens.

Exactly Zero US companies won any contracts when Iraq auctioned off their oil fields. https://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1948787,00.html

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infegy OP t1_j8j1819 wrote

Data

The data used in this visualization comes from Infegy, a consumer intelligence platform that gathers, analyzes, and presents information from billions of social media posts. The list of bands was obtained from a publicly available source on GitHub.

Visualization
The process of the visualization involves searching for posts about the Red Hot Chili Peppers (RHCP) and analyzing the data to find the top 50 bands mentioned in these posts. For each of these 50 bands, the process is repeated to find the other bands they are connected with. The connection between two bands is represented by an edge, and the strength of the edge reflects how often they are mentioned together.
The results show that The Beatles are at the center of all the connections, confirming their strong influence. Additionally, the data reveals that the Rock cluster is separated from the Alternative and Pop clusters.

Tools
The tools used for this visualization include Python and its libraries Pandas and PyVis.

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