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Are the metrics for this described somewhere? I find the top two surprising. From their numbers, Dorsey has donated $1B (26% of his current $3.8B net worth), while Gates has donated $36B (36% of his current net worth).

So....Gates has donated more as a share of his net worth and SIGNIFICANTLY more in raw numbers. What justifies putting Dorsey ahead of him?

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> Top donors this month

Is the (admittedly quite small) heading.

Also I noted that Brin (only one I clicked on) is in last place/#29 at $0 this month. So (and to find out was the reason I clicked) this is 'how much have these 29 billionaires donated this month'; not 'who are the top billionaire donors, all listed are big donors'.

This almost seems like a metric chosen specifically to get Dorsey on top since he recently made a single massive donation while people like Gates have contributed a much larger amount over a much longer period of time.

Donations this month is a meaningless metric.

Total % of net worth would be the obvious metric, wouldn't it?

Is this only US billionaires? There are 614 billionaires in the US according to Forbes[0], there are only 29 listed here, ~5% of the total.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

Yeah, %net worth would be more meaningful, but I still think monthly is odd. Why should it look bad if you donate nothing for 11 months and then drop a big one, because that's what you do every Christmas or something.

Assuming accurate monthly data is even available, I think a 12mo moving average would make more sense. In addition to the %net worth you suggest.

Larry Ellison is #21, having donated $0 this month.

Admittedly the scoring just highly multiplies donations for this month. It still gives some weight to donations and giving before hand, but less so.

Agreed. And looking at Koch donations... he's only "donating" to his own companies:

> Koch Industry's Molex is transforming its production line to help produce Sense's Biodetection new COVID-19 test that produces result in less than 10 minutes.

I wouldn't ever classify this guy as doing something "good", unless good is coincidentally beneficial to him.

Just above the billionaire cards it says: Top Donors This Month. So Dorsey donating this month likely put him at the front.

I totally skimmed right past that and didn't read it either because there's no filter for overall or any other period. Perfect example of design flaw that a designer would argue is the user's fault cause "ITS RIGHT THERE!"

I'd really like to talk to any designer that endorsed this site because there are three titles - One top-title (annoyingly in all-small) one caption title in title case (Well done on it's own but quite conflicted against the all-small over-title) and then an additional sub-title that is, unaccountably, placed after a social media callout... in other words placed in a position after the thing everyone ignores... Also it's in all-caps because having your titles in three different capitalizations and utilizing capitalizations in the opposite order of general assumption is just what we like doing to not make the user think. At least they didn't use three separate font faces, but I feel like that might just be by chance.

I'm the designer. And engineer, etc. :P

Sorry, which are the three titles?

I see "billionaire board" and "Top donors this month" as two, but what's the third?

Will put the caps in sync!

Specifically I'd consider the main title to be: "billionaire board" the title caption to be "These are the world's most powerful people. Let's track their impact & inspire them to do more good, starting with COVID-19." and the subtitle "Top donors this month" - on further reading it looks like this might work a lot better if the subtitle was considered a content title in the case where there were multiple content blocks each with a separate ranking or grouping that needs description.

Great feedback! Will take this to heart as I ponder the next iteration.

It says "top donors this month".

This month Dorsey has donated $1B, Bill Gates has donated $150m (both according to that website).

Because Dorsey donated more money LAST MONTH.

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