The Largest Bankruptcies in History Visualization

Another winner from GOOD magazine, this time visualizing the largest bankruptcies in history as the sinking boats they are.  It even includes the recent GM & Chrysler bankruptcies as the little pink boats.

Last week, General Motors began the fourth largest bankruptcy proceedings in history, joining the many other large and venerable companies that have sunk to the bottom during this economic crisis. In fact, eight of the 20 largest bankruptcies have happened during the last two years of crisis. Our latest Transparency is a look at the biggest sinking ships in business history.

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via Transparency: The Largest Bankruptcies in History | GOOD.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .