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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Contents: The Facebook Offering: How It Compares Montana can't sleep The Facebook Offering: How It Compares May 18, 2012 12:01 am  •  Permalink The New York Times does it again with this succinct look at tech IPOs. It begins with looking at everything through the lens of when Google's IPO in 2004, which, at the time, was considered huge. The next screen adds Facebook to the mix which dwarfs everything prior. It continues on to show the first day of trading pop and where things landed long term (3 years post-IPO). It's a very interesting view of IPOs and could actually be a good financial analysis tool with a few more features. Montana can't sleep May 17, 2012 09:24 am  •  Permalink Help is a drug company that offers you less. Less active ingredients, less waste, less confusion, less greed. Its tongue-in-cheek website has a map of its latest sales data called "What's wrong U.S.?" A bar chart for each state shows how many people are buying products for particular maladies. So why are the inner northwest states having problems sleeping? My guess they're up late worrying about gay marriage. More to read: Why are so many men pregnant? The Descriptive Camera What is missing? How to Visualize and Compare Distributions ITP Spring Show: Iraq war and diabetes visualizations  follow on Twitter | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2012 FlowingData, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in on FlowingData. Our mailing address is: FlowingData PO Box 3381 Livermore, CA 94550 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences