Big Whale Hunting - S&P 500 market cap vs. employees bubble chart

Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

Big Whale Hunting visualizes the S&P 500 as a bubble chart where each bubble's area represents market capitalization and every stick figure inside stands for 10,000 employees. Instantly see which companies are worth little per worker (dense with figures) versus those worth a lot (sparse). Filtered to 329 companies with at least 10,000 employees and $20B market cap, plus outliers like Palantir and Welltower. Click any bubble for details, zoom to explore, and compare employee density across sectors. A fresh way to understand workforce efficiency and market valuation at a glance.

Every figure is the same size, so how densely a bubble is filled shows its employees per dollar of market cap.

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