As someone who is red-green colorblind, thank you for using this shaded scale. It is very easy to see and understand the map.

Mattei worked at ENI (oil company). This is ENEL (electricity generation and distribution).

This leaves out every major tech IPO of the last 5 years. Airbnb IPO'ed for 100B for example.

This is missing lots of big tech companies. For example Airbnb IPO'ed for 100B.

Would love for Biden to encourage the protesters but he’s too busy trading arms dealers for anti American athletes

>You create a company which you own a 100% of, but you need to raise more money.

Highly unlikely. Probably do many rounds of unregistered exempt offerings well before an IPO.

Temperature is another one. Unless you're doing experiments at absolute zero, 0 degrees K shouldn't be on your graph.

Not every graph needs to start at 0 though. A graph of temperature, for example, shouldn't ever start at 0 K unless you're dealing with temps in that range.

No problem, just clarifying, because usually reality is more complex.

To show differences, you use a line graph. To show magnitude you use a bar graph (as a general rule).

The principle of proportional ink states that sizes should be relative, meaning bar graphs should all start at zero.

If you wish to demonstrate the change in a variable, use a line graph.

Units matter as well. If zero means a lack of quantity for the variable, zero is a valid starting point. If zero does NOT represent a lack of quantity, you do not have to start at zero.

Think temperatures: zero degrees does not mean a lack of degrees. Also, we typically consider the change in temperature over time. Hence, temperatures should be represented in a line graph.

The three-dimensional bars are terrible. They add nothing to the visualization, and they make the chart harder to read. For example, you can't tell visually that the $18.1B and $17.9B numbers are different, whereas if the bars had flat tops, you could.

The colors also add nothing, since we don't need or have a legend. Color could be better used for a different variable of interest here (like a scale for year of the IPO, or to categorize countries or industries).

It makes no sense to me to have the company name on the bar and the logo above. Put the logos on the bar if you must have them. The company names are also inaccurate: ICBC stands for Industrial and Commercial Bank of China; its name is not "ICBC Bank". NTT should be NTT Docomo. SoftBank is, bizarrely, SoftBank Group Corp. It may seem like nitpicking, but it's worth getting company names right. If that creates a problem with disambiguating organizations with similar names, that problem has to be solved in another way.

The comparison of data across 24 years (1988 - 2022) with no inflation adjustment makes the chart difficult to interpret.

Thank you for clarifying that!

Yeah I could have made the graphic more clear. That -.39 is -39%, therefore the 21 is +2100%

Well... sort of. This is the percent change. So TX still has a low percentage of renewables. That said, it's better than some other places and for its size it's decent thanks to some of the companies you mentioned (NRG I think).

Are we looking at different graphics? The one I'm looking at ranges from -0.4 (percent, presumably?) to +21, with the later applying only to Kansas, and most of everything being a pretty uniform tan.

Are there mega companies that would be #1 if they IPOd?

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One thing that I am proud of. Texas really does renewable well. Even if our dipshit governor blames frozen windmills for power blackouts during winter weather. Energy is in the private sector and Texas is good at Energy and not just hydrocarbons. Too many smart people here to let that go. Too bad yokals still outnumber us in this huge state. Soon purple texas....Texas..... soon.

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>Any reason you chose green as the middle and red as the high end of positive.

Short answer: Basically I needed a lot of range.

Longer answer: I needed something bright for the low end and something with a wide range visually for the middle parts. Kansas was in a league of it's own in many ways. So basically anything with a green tint at all that wasn't completely yellow had a positive gain. For example, Washington State was -16%, Idaho was -24%, and Montana was +13%.

Hopefully that makes sense.

I assumed that the other person knew more than I did, hence the response I gave. (Which was probably dumb of me!)

Hey, I never said what ratio we assume them deceptive rather than terrible journalists. Though I would probably default to "Porque no los dos" most of the time...

Ah yes, 2012 when facebook was just one of the many MySpace clones popping up.

Any reason you chose green as the middle and red as the high end of positive. Generally green would indicate positive and red would indicate negative. Considering this is for renewable energy, it would make even more sense to have green be the high end.

Off Shore Wind is coming so the coasts will look like the middle by 2030.