Googlers Visualized

Do the colors mean anything, or are they just random? I think it'd be cooler if it was color-coded by job function or something - all engineers in blue, PMs in red, HR in yellow, sales in green, etc.

Also, the data is out-of-date. The last quarterly report (came out last week) said there were slightly under 20,000 employees.

What exactly is the point of this? Aren't visualizations supposed to provide some kind of new context or insight? All this really does is show that I have to scroll a lot to see 20k images. It's kind of like showing a bar graph with one data point.

What about making the images small so you can see them on one page. Perhaps you could compare them to the sizes of other companies. You probably don't have this data, but showing geographic or job-role distribution would also be interesting. Or, you could show a visualization of profit per employee.

Look at the source of that html. Looks like someone ran a for loop for all the img. It'd be cool to use some ajax and make this update automatically when the number changes.

I see, they cloned the first 4 they hired.

A lot of groupthink potential there...