Recompute Study against corrected 142-record Directory
Track #6'sa677056removed 5 non-follower records (Philipp Brandt, Arunangshu Debnath, Simon Sebold, Chen Shen, Martin Uhlig) that had contaminated the 147-record set my previous recompute (572887b) was built against. Namrata Sharma and Renske M. van der Veen are confirmed genuine followers and were unaffected by the removal. Full recompute of all six charts and all affected prose against the corrected 142-record dataset, verified via script. Re-checked the two figures flagged as drifted/unreconcilable in the prior commit: 1st-degree connections correctly returns to 6%/94% at 142 (the 5%/95% was an artifact of the contaminated 147 count); "Research/Engineering readers 38%" still can't be reconciled against any live field combination and stays flagged as a pre-existing stale figure. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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<h1>TXproducts LinkedIn Follower Study</h1>
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<p class="sub">A full manual audit of all 147 Page followers — who they are, where they sit in the network, and what it says about who TXproducts content is actually reaching.</p>
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<p class="sub">A full manual audit of all 142 Page followers — who they are, where they sit in the network, and what it says about who TXproducts content is actually reaching.</p>
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<div class="meta">Source: manual_followers_list_2026-07-22.xlsx — 98 followers confirmed against growth_history.json as of the original 2026-07-22 snapshot (not a sample), plus 13 followers added manually since (Marc Thiry, Orkun Aydin, Rajkumar Rengaraj, Branislav Fabik, Muhammad Yousaf, Milena Petković, Paul Evans, Sabine E. Herlitschka, Simone Vadilonga, Hitesh Dudhagara, Alexander Rack, Tina Schmidt, Sinan Bubik), plus two rounds of profile re-screenshotting to close data gaps on existing followers · Compiled/updated 2026-08-03</div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">147</div><div class="lbl">total followers audited</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">86%</div><div class="lbl">have a company listed (21 of 147 show no company)</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">5%<span class="info-tip" tabindex="0">?<span class="tip-bubble"><span class="tb-item"><strong>1</strong> = a direct, mutual LinkedIn connection with the Page admin.</span><span class="tb-item"><strong>2</strong> = connected to one of the admin's connections, but not directly to them.</span><span class="tb-item"><strong>3</strong> = one more step removed — connected to a 2nd-degree connection. Higher degree = more separation from TXproducts' direct network.</span></span></span></div><div class="lbl">are 1st-degree connections (8 of 147) — the rest are 2nd/3rd degree</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">142</div><div class="lbl">total followers audited</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">86%</div><div class="lbl">have a company listed (20 of 142 show no company)</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">6%<span class="info-tip" tabindex="0">?<span class="tip-bubble"><span class="tb-item"><strong>1</strong> = a direct, mutual LinkedIn connection with the Page admin.</span><span class="tb-item"><strong>2</strong> = connected to one of the admin's connections, but not directly to them.</span><span class="tb-item"><strong>3</strong> = one more step removed — connected to a 2nd-degree connection. Higher degree = more separation from TXproducts' direct network.</span></span></span></div><div class="lbl">are 1st-degree connections (8 of 142) — the rest are 2nd/3rd degree</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">26<span class="info-tip" tabindex="0">?<span class="tip-bubble"><span class="tb-item"><strong>H1</strong> = first half of the year, January–June.</span><span class="tb-item"><strong>H2</strong> = second half, July–December.</span><span class="tb-item">E.g. "2026 H2" means July–December 2026 (currently only the first few weeks in).</span></span></span></div><div class="lbl">new followers in the first weeks of H2 2026 alone — already ahead of all of H1</div></div>
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<p class="note">What the data actually supports, not the highlight reel.</p>
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<li><strong>Growth has two distinct eras.</strong> 42 of 147 followers (29%) arrived in a single burst in H1 2023 — almost certainly the page's early launch/network-invite window. Growth then went nearly dormant for two years (H2 2023–H2 2024: 8 followers combined across 18 months) before reaccelerating sharply from H1 2025 onward (7 → 12 → 16 → 62-and-counting per half-year). The current growth phase is real and recent, not a continuation of the 2023 launch spike.</li>
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<li><strong>The audience is shallow-network, not core-network.</strong> Only 8 followers (5%) are 1st-degree connections. 95% are 2nd or 3rd degree — people who found the page through shares, group overlap, or algorithmic surfacing rather than a direct personal tie. This matters for messaging: most of the audience doesn't already know TXproducts and needs context, not insider shorthand.</li>
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<li><strong>Where a sector is identifiable, it clusters hard around synchrotron/photonics research.</strong> Of the 126 followers with an identifiable employer, 57 (45%) sit inside academic/national-research institutes (DESY-affiliated orgs, Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung, Max Planck Institute, Fraunhofer, Max Born Institute, several universities, and now a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, three Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin researchers (a postdoc, a doctoral researcher in advanced ceramics/2D materials, and a professor), an ESRF synchrotron scientist, a Synchrotron SOLEIL detector scientist, a Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf innovation manager, a DESY student research assistant, a DESY/University of Kiel Group Leader, a DESY dep. CTO, a DESY communications & marketing professional, a TUHH/DASHH Ph.D. candidate, a Hannover optical-technologies research assistant, an Inha University professor, a Università di Trento Ph.D. student, two University of Hamburg Master's students, three more DESY researchers (quantum dynamics, X-ray/neutron scattering, and innovation management), a DESY Projektträger science manager, a Technische Universität München/MLZ PhD researcher, and an Istanbul Technical University business development partner) and another 8 (6%) work at dedicated photonics/laser companies (Class 5 Photonics, Coherent, WiredSense, Living Optics, Lace Lithography, X-Spectrum, Cycle GmbH, LANO Photonics), plus a new semiconductor-reliability startup founder (XDefine) and a Bharat Electronics Limited defense-electronics general manager. Together that's 52% of everyone with a known employer — the follower base looks like TXproducts' actual customer/partner ecosystem, not a generic marketing audience.</li>
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<li><strong>A visible Hamburg/DESY micro-cluster — spanning eight external institutions.</strong> Two rounds of profile enrichment nearly doubled this signal: DESY (any form) now has 14 linked entries, University of Hamburg 5, Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung 4, and four more institutions cross the 2-follower threshold — Class 5 Photonics (2), Impossible Founders (2), Start-Up Labs Hamburg (2), WAIV-FTIR (2), and Hamburg University of Technology/TUHH (3). <strong>33 distinct followers</strong> (26% of the 126 named-company followers) now trace to this local ecosystem, up from 12 before this round of detective work. Separately, a new non-Hamburg research cluster is forming at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (now 3 followers), tracked in the Notable Clusters exclusion note below since it's Berlin-based, not part of the Hamburg/DESY ecosystem. (TXproducts itself now has 5 followers — our own CEO, our Marketing & Sales Manager, and three internal team members (a Software Developer, a Data Governance Consultant, and a Product Engineer) — but that's an expected internal signal, not part of the external-ecosystem story, so it's tracked separately below.) This reads like real-world event/conference overlap, not organic reach.</li>
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<li><strong>Seniority is bimodal, not junior-heavy.</strong> 35 followers (24%) hold C-level/Founder, Director/Head/Principal, or Senior IC/Lead titles — a notably senior slice for an organic Page audience, including an Infineon Austria CEO, a US professor, a Turkey-based university Partner, a DESY/University of Kiel Group Leader, a DESY dep. CTO, an Inha University professor, a semiconductor-startup founder, a Bharat Electronics Limited general manager, and a Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin professor — while 18 (12%) are students or trainees. The middle (managers, individual-contributor engineers and researchers) makes up the bulk. Content aimed only at practitioners will miss around a quarter of the audience that's decision-making seniority.</li>
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<li><strong>Growth has two distinct eras.</strong> 42 of 142 followers (30%) arrived in a single burst in H1 2023 — almost certainly the page's early launch/network-invite window. Growth then went nearly dormant for two years (H2 2023–H2 2024: 8 followers combined across 18 months) before reaccelerating sharply from H1 2025 onward (7 → 12 → 16 → 57-and-counting per half-year). The current growth phase is real and recent, not a continuation of the 2023 launch spike.</li>
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<li><strong>The audience is shallow-network, not core-network.</strong> Only 8 followers (6%) are 1st-degree connections. 94% are 2nd or 3rd degree — people who found the page through shares, group overlap, or algorithmic surfacing rather than a direct personal tie. This matters for messaging: most of the audience doesn't already know TXproducts and needs context, not insider shorthand.</li>
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<li><strong>Where a sector is identifiable, it clusters hard around synchrotron/photonics research.</strong> Of the 122 followers with an identifiable employer, 53 (43%) sit inside academic/national-research institutes (DESY-affiliated orgs, Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung, Max Planck Institute, Fraunhofer, Max Born Institute, several universities, and now a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, four Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin researchers (a postdoc, a doctoral researcher in advanced ceramics/2D materials, an experimental materials scientist, and a professor), an ESRF synchrotron scientist, a Synchrotron SOLEIL detector scientist, a Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf innovation manager, a DESY student research assistant, a DESY/University of Kiel Group Leader, a DESY dep. CTO, a DESY communications & marketing professional, a TUHH/DASHH Ph.D. candidate, a Hannover optical-technologies research assistant, an Inha University professor, a Università di Trento Ph.D. student, two University of Hamburg Master's students, another DESY research assistant, a DESY Projektträger science manager, and an Istanbul Technical University business development partner) and another 8 (7%) work at dedicated photonics/laser companies (Class 5 Photonics, Coherent, WiredSense, Living Optics, Lace Lithography, X-Spectrum, Cycle GmbH, LANO Photonics), plus a new semiconductor-reliability startup founder (XDefine) and a Bharat Electronics Limited defense-electronics general manager. Together that's 50% of everyone with a known employer — the follower base looks like TXproducts' actual customer/partner ecosystem, not a generic marketing audience.</li>
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<li><strong>A visible Hamburg/DESY micro-cluster — spanning eight external institutions.</strong> Two rounds of profile enrichment nearly doubled this signal: DESY (any form) now has 11 linked entries, University of Hamburg 5, Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung 4, and four more institutions cross the 2-follower threshold — Class 5 Photonics (2), Impossible Founders (2), Start-Up Labs Hamburg (2), WAIV-FTIR (2), and Hamburg University of Technology/TUHH (3). <strong>30 distinct followers</strong> (25% of the 122 named-company followers) now trace to this local ecosystem, up from 12 before this round of detective work. Separately, a non-Hamburg research cluster is forming at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (now 4 followers), tracked in the Notable Clusters exclusion note below since it's Berlin-based, not part of the Hamburg/DESY ecosystem. (TXproducts itself now has 5 followers — our own CEO, our Marketing & Sales Manager, and three internal team members (a Software Developer, a Data Governance Consultant, and a Product Engineer) — but that's an expected internal signal, not part of the external-ecosystem story, so it's tracked separately below.) This reads like real-world event/conference overlap, not organic reach.</li>
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<li><strong>Seniority is bimodal, not junior-heavy.</strong> 35 followers (25%) hold C-level/Founder, Director/Head/Principal, or Senior IC/Lead titles — a notably senior slice for an organic Page audience, including an Infineon Austria CEO, a US professor, a Turkey-based university Partner, a DESY/University of Kiel Group Leader, a DESY dep. CTO, an Inha University professor, a semiconductor-startup founder, a Bharat Electronics Limited general manager, and a Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin professor — while 18 (13%) are students or trainees. The middle (managers, individual-contributor engineers and researchers) makes up the bulk. Content aimed only at practitioners will miss a quarter of the audience that's decision-making seniority.</li>
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<div class="limitation"><span class="tag">Limitation:</span> data completeness is the real limiting factor here. 21 of 147 followers (14%) list no company at all, and 20 (14%) have no usable title (tagline-only or blank LinkedIn profiles). Every breakdown in this report is a share <em>of what's knowable</em>, not of all 147 — treat every percentage as directional, not exhaustive.</div>
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<div class="limitation"><span class="tag">Limitation:</span> data completeness is the real limiting factor here. 20 of 142 followers (14%) list no company at all, and 19 (13%) have no usable title (tagline-only or blank LinkedIn profiles). Every breakdown in this report is a share <em>of what's knowable</em>, not of all 142 — treat every percentage as directional, not exhaustive.</div>
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<h3>Don't assume brand familiarity.</h3>
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<p><strong>95% of followers are 2nd/3rd-degree connections</strong> — most don't already know who TXproducts is. Posts that lean on insider shorthand or assume prior context will lose most of the audience. Lead every post with what TXproducts <em>does</em>, not just what it's doing.</p>
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<p><strong>94% of followers are 2nd/3rd-degree connections</strong> — most don't already know who TXproducts is. Posts that lean on insider shorthand or assume prior context will lose most of the audience. Lead every post with what TXproducts <em>does</em>, not just what it's doing.</p>
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<h3>Write for two audiences in the same post.</h3>
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<p><strong>24% hold C-level/Director/Senior IC titles</strong> while <strong>12% are students or trainees</strong> — a genuinely bimodal<span class="info-tip" tabindex="0">?<span class="tip-bubble">Bimodal = the data has two separate peaks (here: senior leaders AND students) instead of one typical middle-heavy cluster — the opposite of a normal bell curve.</span></span> audience. Pair a strategic/business-value framing (for decision-makers) with real technical detail (for practitioners) rather than picking one register.</p>
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<p><strong>25% hold C-level/Director/Senior IC titles</strong> while <strong>13% are students or trainees</strong> — a genuinely bimodal<span class="info-tip" tabindex="0">?<span class="tip-bubble">Bimodal = the data has two separate peaks (here: senior leaders AND students) instead of one typical middle-heavy cluster — the opposite of a normal bell curve.</span></span> audience. Pair a strategic/business-value framing (for decision-makers) with real technical detail (for practitioners) rather than picking one register.</p>
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<h3>This is a Hamburg audience, not a global one.</h3>
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<p>Location detective work on all 126 named companies confirms it: <strong>66% are based in Germany, and 37% are specifically Hamburg-based</strong> (DESY in its various forms, Uni Hamburg, TUHH, Class 5 Photonics, WiredSense, WAIV-FTIR, Impossible Founders, Cycle GmbH, Start-Up Labs Hamburg). Content should assume a local, ecosystem-aware reader by default — not write for a generic global LinkedIn audience.</p>
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<p>Location detective work on all 122 named companies confirms it: <strong>65% are based in Germany, and 36% are specifically Hamburg-based</strong> (DESY in its various forms, Uni Hamburg, TUHH, Class 5 Photonics, WiredSense, WAIV-FTIR, Impossible Founders, Cycle GmbH, Start-Up Labs Hamburg). Content should assume a local, ecosystem-aware reader by default — not write for a generic global LinkedIn audience.</p>
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<li><strong>Lean into the Hamburg/DESY identity on purpose.</strong> With 37% of the knowable audience already Hamburg-based, tagging and naming DESY, Uni Hamburg, TUHH, and named local partners (Class 5 Photonics, Impossible Founders, Start-Up Labs Hamburg) in posts should out-perform generic industry hashtags — the audience already recognizes these names.</li>
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<li><strong>Turn 2nd-degree reach into 1st-degree relationships.</strong> Only 5% of followers are 1st-degree connections. A short campaign of direct connection requests or comments to the most senior/relevant 2nd-degree followers (the 24% at Director+ level — now including an Infineon Austria CEO and a US professor) converts passive followers into an active network faster than posting alone.</li>
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<li><strong>Turn 2nd-degree reach into 1st-degree relationships.</strong> Only 6% of followers are 1st-degree connections. A short campaign of direct connection requests or comments to the most senior/relevant 2nd-degree followers (the 25% at Director+ level — now including an Infineon Austria CEO and a US professor) converts passive followers into an active network faster than posting alone.</li>
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<li><strong>Post more, now, while the reacceleration is live.</strong> 49% of all followers arrived in just the last ~13 months (H2 2025 onward), after a 2-year dormant stretch — this is a compounding-growth window, not a steady-state one. Increasing posting frequency now captures more of the current momentum than maintaining a flat cadence.</li>
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<li><strong>Alternate technical and executive content deliberately.</strong> Don't default to one register — Research/Engineering readers (38%) want real technical substance; the C-level/Director segment (25%) wants strategic/ROI framing. A simple weekly rotation (one technical post, one business-value post) covers both without diluting either.</li>
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<li><strong>Treat the clustered organizations as warm partnership doors.</strong> Eight institutions now have 2 or more employees following independently — DESY (6), University of Hamburg (3), Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (4), Class 5 Photonics, Impossible Founders, Start-Up Labs Hamburg, WAIV-FTIR, and TUHH (2 each). That's a signal worth direct outreach for co-marketing or a tagged joint post, not just organic hope.</li>
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<p class="note">Classified from each follower's headline job title. "Unknown" = tagline-only or blank profile, not absence of seniority.</p>
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<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> This audience is bimodal<span class="info-tip" tabindex="0">?<span class="tip-bubble">Bimodal = two separate peaks in the data (here: senior leaders and students) rather than one typical middle-heavy cluster around mid-level roles — the opposite of a normal bell curve.</span></span>, not junior-heavy. 35 followers (24%) sit at C-level/Founder, Director/Head/Principal, or Senior IC/Lead level — genuine decision-makers, now including an Infineon Austria CEO, a US professor, a Turkey-based university Partner, a DESY/University of Kiel Group Leader, a DESY dep. CTO, an Inha University professor, a semiconductor-startup founder, a Bharat Electronics Limited general manager, and a Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin professor — while a similarly sized 18 (12%) are students/trainees. Content aimed only at working-level practitioners (engineers, managers) will land with the biggest single cluster but silently miss around a quarter of the audience that can actually greenlight a partnership or purchase.</div>
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<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> This audience is bimodal<span class="info-tip" tabindex="0">?<span class="tip-bubble">Bimodal = two separate peaks in the data (here: senior leaders and students) rather than one typical middle-heavy cluster around mid-level roles — the opposite of a normal bell curve.</span></span>, not junior-heavy. 35 followers (25%) sit at C-level/Founder, Director/Head/Principal, or Senior IC/Lead level — genuine decision-makers, now including an Infineon Austria CEO, a US professor, a Turkey-based university Partner, a DESY/University of Kiel Group Leader, a DESY dep. CTO, an Inha University professor, a semiconductor-startup founder, a Bharat Electronics Limited general manager, and a Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin professor — while a similarly sized 18 (13%) are students/trainees. Content aimed only at working-level practitioners (engineers, managers) will land with the biggest single cluster but silently miss a quarter of the audience that can actually greenlight a partnership or purchase.</div>
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<h2>Sector — of the 126 followers with an identifiable employer</h2>
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<p class="note">The other 21 of 147 list no company at all and are excluded from this chart entirely (see completeness note above) — this is a breakdown of the knowable share only.</p>
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<h2>Sector — of the 122 followers with an identifiable employer</h2>
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<p class="note">The other 20 of 142 list no company at all and are excluded from this chart entirely (see completeness note above) — this is a breakdown of the knowable share only.</p>
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<div class="limitation"><span class="tag">Limitation:</span> this chart only covers the 126 followers with an identifiable employer — the other 21 of 147 (14%) list no company at all and are excluded entirely, not folded into any bar above.</div>
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<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> Academia/Research (57) and Photonics/Laser/Optics industry (8) together are 52% of everyone with a known employer — this reads as TXproducts' actual customer and partner ecosystem following along, not a generic marketing audience. Messaging can speak directly to beamtime, instrumentation, and measurement pain points without translating for a lay audience.</div>
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<div class="limitation"><span class="tag">Limitation:</span> this chart only covers the 122 followers with an identifiable employer — the other 20 of 142 (14%) list no company at all and are excluded entirely, not folded into any bar above.</div>
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<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> Academia/Research (53) and Photonics/Laser/Optics industry (8) together are 50% of everyone with a known employer — this reads as TXproducts' actual customer and partner ecosystem following along, not a generic marketing audience. Messaging can speak directly to beamtime, instrumentation, and measurement pain points without translating for a lay audience.</div>
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<h2>Geography — of the 126 followers with a company (fully resolved)</h2>
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<p class="note">Follow-up detective work: every one of the original 14 "unverified" companies was individually researched (web lookups) and located, and subsequent rounds of profile re-screenshotting have now identified an employer for 35 more previously-blank followers. Every one of the 126 named companies now has a country assigned — 105 at High confidence, 21 at Medium (including "Aqua Group," resolved via a screenshot showing the exact legal name "AQUA GROUP GmbH" plus the follower's own location in Greater Munich, matching a real Holzkirchen-based German company). Full results (country, city/site, confidence) are written back into the source spreadsheet as three columns, plus a fourth "Personal Location (from profile)" column now filled for 109 of 147 followers.</p>
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<h2>Geography — of the 122 followers with a company (fully resolved)</h2>
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<p class="note">Follow-up detective work: every one of the original 14 "unverified" companies was individually researched (web lookups) and located, and subsequent rounds of profile re-screenshotting have now identified an employer for 35 more previously-blank followers. Every one of the 122 named companies now has a country assigned — 104 at High confidence, 18 at Medium (including "Aqua Group," resolved via a screenshot showing the exact legal name "AQUA GROUP GmbH" plus the follower's own location in Greater Munich, matching a real Holzkirchen-based German company). Full results (country, city/site, confidence) are written back into the source spreadsheet as three columns, plus a fourth "Personal Location (from profile)" column now filled for 109 of 142 followers.</p>
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<div class="limitation"><span class="tag">Limitation:</span> "Company Country" reflects the employer's HQ, not the individual's personal location, and the two can differ — e.g. Rajkumar Rengaraj is personally Germany-based (Aachen) but his employer is Swiss; conversely several followers here work for Germany/Hamburg-HQ organizations while personally based in the UK, Norway, India, or Sweden, Hitesh Dudhagara is personally in Surat, Gujarat while his listed university affiliation resolves to Rajkot, and Sinan Bubik is personally in Munich, Germany while his employer (ITU) is Turkey-based. Maximilian F. is personally in the Zürich Metropolitan Area while his employer's Swiss site is in Baden, Aargau, and Antonio Cillis is personally in Berlin while his employer (INFOMOTION GmbH) is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. The 66% Germany / 37% Hamburg figures describe where employers are headquartered, not necessarily where the 126 people physically are — treat this chart as an ecosystem-affiliation signal, not a literal map of the audience.</div>
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<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> <strong>66% of named-company followers are affiliated with a Germany-headquartered organization, and 37% specifically with a Hamburg one</strong> (DESY in its various forms, Uni Hamburg, TUHH, Class 5 Photonics, WiredSense, WAIV-FTIR, Impossible Founders, Cycle GmbH, Start-Up Labs Hamburg). This is fundamentally a regional-ecosystem audience, not a global one — local events, DESY-adjacent news, and Hamburg startup-scene references will resonate far more than internationally-generic content, even for the followers who don't personally live there.</div>
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<div class="limitation"><span class="tag">Limitation:</span> "Company Country" reflects the employer's HQ, not the individual's personal location, and the two can differ — e.g. Rajkumar Rengaraj is personally Germany-based (Aachen) but his employer is Swiss; conversely several followers here work for Germany/Hamburg-HQ organizations while personally based in the UK, Norway, India, or Sweden, Hitesh Dudhagara is personally in Surat, Gujarat while his listed university affiliation resolves to Rajkot, and Sinan Bubik is personally in Munich, Germany while his employer (ITU) is Turkey-based. Maximilian F. is personally in the Zürich Metropolitan Area while his employer's Swiss site is in Baden, Aargau, and Antonio Cillis is personally in Berlin while his employer (INFOMOTION GmbH) is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. The 65% Germany / 36% Hamburg figures describe where employers are headquartered, not necessarily where the 122 people physically are — treat this chart as an ecosystem-affiliation signal, not a literal map of the audience.</div>
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<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> <strong>65% of named-company followers are affiliated with a Germany-headquartered organization, and 36% specifically with a Hamburg one</strong> (DESY in its various forms, Uni Hamburg, TUHH, Class 5 Photonics, WiredSense, WAIV-FTIR, Impossible Founders, Cycle GmbH, Start-Up Labs Hamburg). This is fundamentally a regional-ecosystem audience, not a global one — local events, DESY-adjacent news, and Hamburg startup-scene references will resonate far more than internationally-generic content, even for the followers who don't personally live there.</div>
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</section>
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@@ -300,17 +300,17 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
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<p class="note">LinkedIn connection degree<span class="info-tip" tabindex="0">?<span class="tip-bubble"><span class="tb-item"><strong>1</strong> = a direct, mutual LinkedIn connection with the Page admin.</span><span class="tb-item"><strong>2</strong> = connected to one of the admin's connections, but not directly to them.</span><span class="tb-item"><strong>3</strong> = one more step removed — connected to a 2nd-degree connection. Higher degree = more separation from TXproducts' direct network.</span></span></span> relative to the Page admin's account — a rough proxy for how directly someone is tied to TXproducts' existing network versus discovering it independently.</p>
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<div class="hbar-chart" id="connection-chart"></div>
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<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> This matters for messaging: most of the audience doesn't already know TXproducts and needs context, not insider shorthand. 95% are 2nd/3rd-degree connections who found the page through shares or algorithmic surfacing, not a direct tie — every post should be legible to someone with zero prior context on who TXproducts is or what it does.</div>
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<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> This matters for messaging: most of the audience doesn't already know TXproducts and needs context, not insider shorthand. 94% are 2nd/3rd-degree connections who found the page through shares or algorithmic surfacing, not a direct tie — every post should be legible to someone with zero prior context on who TXproducts is or what it does.</div>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Notable organizational clusters</h2>
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<p class="note">Named organizations appearing more than once in the 126 followers with company data — the strongest evidence of a real-world ecosystem effect rather than coincidence. This table nearly doubled after the latest rounds of profile re-screenshotting: from 5 institutions/12 distinct people to 8 institutions/22 distinct people. (Umicore also now has 2 followers, but it's a Belgian materials company with no Hamburg/DESY tie, so it's excluded from this specific table — coincidental multinational overlap, not local-ecosystem clustering. ITCareerHub.de, a German IT-retraining bootcamp, also now has 2 followers (Almira Tolstova, Anna Maksakova, added 2026-08-10) — excluded for the same reason: a real 2-follower cluster, but a career-training platform unrelated to the Hamburg/DESY photonics ecosystem this table specifically tracks. Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin now has 3 followers (a postdoc, a doctoral researcher, and a professor) — a genuine, growing research-institute cluster, but excluded for the same reason as Umicore/ITCareerHub: it's Berlin-based, not part of the Hamburg/DESY local ecosystem this table specifically tracks. ESRF, HZDR, and ITU, all added 2026-08-03, are each single-follower institutions so far — not yet part of this table, though ESRF in particular is another major synchrotron facility peer to DESY, reinforcing the sector-clustering pattern even as a standalone entry.)</p>
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<p class="note">Named organizations appearing more than once in the 122 followers with company data — the strongest evidence of a real-world ecosystem effect rather than coincidence. This table nearly doubled after the latest rounds of profile re-screenshotting: from 5 institutions/12 distinct people to 8 institutions/22 distinct people. (Umicore also now has 2 followers, but it's a Belgian materials company with no Hamburg/DESY tie, so it's excluded from this specific table — coincidental multinational overlap, not local-ecosystem clustering. ITCareerHub.de, a German IT-retraining bootcamp, also now has 2 followers (Almira Tolstova, Anna Maksakova, added 2026-08-10) — excluded for the same reason: a real 2-follower cluster, but a career-training platform unrelated to the Hamburg/DESY photonics ecosystem this table specifically tracks. Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin now has 4 followers (a postdoc, a doctoral researcher, an experimental materials scientist, and a professor) — a genuine, growing research-institute cluster, but excluded for the same reason as Umicore/ITCareerHub: it's Berlin-based, not part of the Hamburg/DESY local ecosystem this table specifically tracks. ESRF, HZDR, and ITU, all added 2026-08-03, are each single-follower institutions so far — not yet part of this table, though ESRF in particular is another major synchrotron facility peer to DESY, reinforcing the sector-clustering pattern even as a standalone entry.)</p>
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<div class="panel">
|
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<table class="data-table">
|
||||
<tr><th>Organization</th><th>Followers</th><th>Note</th></tr>
|
||||
<tr><td class="strong">DESY (any form)</td><td>14</td><td>Program Manager (Impossible Founders & DESY) · Innovation Manager (Hi‑Acts / DESY) · a second Innovation Manager (Hi‑Acts / DESY) · Head of Business Development · Experimental Physicist · Development Scientist (DESY Innovation Factory) · Student Research Assistant · Group Leader DAPHNE, DESY Photon Science (also Senior Research Scientist at University of Kiel) · Industry Relations Manager & dep. CTO · Senior Communications & Marketing Professional · Research Assistant (also PhD Student at University of Hamburg) · Wissenschaftsmanagerin (Science Manager, DESY Projektträger) · Scientist (Quantum Dynamics, Nonlinear Optics) · Scientist (X-ray/Neutron Scattering, PETRA III)</td></tr>
|
||||
<tr><td class="strong">DESY (any form)</td><td>11</td><td>Program Manager (Impossible Founders & DESY) · Innovation Manager (Hi‑Acts / DESY) · Head of Business Development · Experimental Physicist · Development Scientist (DESY Innovation Factory) · Student Research Assistant · Group Leader DAPHNE, DESY Photon Science (also Senior Research Scientist at University of Kiel) · Industry Relations Manager & dep. CTO · Senior Communications & Marketing Professional · Research Assistant (also PhD Student at University of Hamburg) · Wissenschaftsmanagerin (Science Manager, DESY Projektträger)</td></tr>
|
||||
<tr><td class="strong">University of Hamburg</td><td>5</td><td>Student, Dr. rer. nat. (Physics/Chemistry/Nanoscience), two Master's students in Physics/Nanoscience, plus one dual-affiliated with Hi-Acts</td></tr>
|
||||
<tr><td class="strong">Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung</td><td>4</td><td>Head of PR, Head of Strategic Science Mgmt, Group Leader, plus a newly-added Head of Research Group (AI/ML, Computational Modeling) — spans 4 seniority levels at one institute</td></tr>
|
||||
<tr><td class="strong">Class 5 Photonics</td><td>2</td><td>Sales Manager, Project Manager Laser Development — Hamburg-based laser company</td></tr>
|
||||
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
|
||||
<tr><td class="strong">WAIV-FTIR</td><td>2</td><td>Co-Founder + Entrepreneur, shared surname (Jung) suggesting a founding couple</td></tr>
|
||||
<tr><td class="strong">Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)</td><td>3</td><td>Student/Electronics Design Engineer, Chemical/Bioprocess Engineering M.Sc. candidate, Ph.D. Candidate @DASHH (R&D for TEIDESAT)</td></tr>
|
||||
</table>
|
||||
<div class="legend-note">Every organization in this table resolved to Hamburg, Germany in the geography lookup below, except Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung, which resolves to Berlin — it's included here as a notable multi-follower institution, not as part of the Hamburg-specific geography figures elsewhere in this report. Row counts sum to 34 because one follower (Timo Christian) carries a dual affiliation across rows, both DESY-linked and Impossible Founders — the distinct headcount is 33, matching the 26% figure quoted above. (Marc Thiry, the University of Hamburg row's other dual-affiliate, is only in that one row, his company field names Hi-Acts and Universität Hamburg but not DESY directly, so he's not double-counted.)</div>
|
||||
<div class="legend-note">Every organization in this table resolved to Hamburg, Germany in the geography lookup below, except Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung, which resolves to Berlin — it's included here as a notable multi-follower institution, not as part of the Hamburg-specific geography figures elsewhere in this report. Row counts sum to 31 because one follower (Timo Christian) carries a dual affiliation across rows, both DESY-linked and Impossible Founders — the distinct headcount is 30, matching the 25% figure quoted above. (Marc Thiry, the University of Hamburg row's other dual-affiliate, is only in that one row, his company field names Hi-Acts and Universität Hamburg but not DESY directly, so he's not double-counted.)</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</section>
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -367,6 +367,7 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
|
||||
<br><br><strong>Incremental update (2026-09-23, 138→139):</strong> one more new follower, Antonio Cillis (2nd degree, "Data and AI engineer" at INFOMOTION GmbH, personally in Berlin, mutual connection with Peter). INFOMOTION is a German data/AI/BI consultancy, not a fit for any of TXproducts' more specific sector categories, so it classifies as Engineer/Developer, Engineering/Technical, Other named company; not Hamburg/DESY-cluster-linked. A web lookup confirmed INFOMOTION's actual HQ is Frankfurt am Main, not Berlin — his own profile only shows his personal location, so Company City is set to Frankfurt am Main (Medium confidence, same personal-location-vs-employer-HQ split as Rajkumar Rengaraj and Maximilian F.) while Personal Location stays Berlin, Germany. Germany's country count increases from 77 to 78. No explicit follow date was shown, so <strong>September 2026</strong> is assumed, unconfirmed. All totals, percentages, and charts in this report now reflect the full 139-follower set.
|
||||
<br><br><strong>Incremental update (2026-09-24, 139→140):</strong> one more new follower, Nima Amousa (2nd degree, "Doctoral Researcher at HZB | Advanced Ceramics, 2D Materials, MXene," Berlin, mutual connection with Peter). Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) is explicitly named in his own tagline text and matches the first logo shown, High confidence; classifies as Postdoc/PhD Researcher, Research/Science, Academia/Research Institute, and Industry maps to Research & Collaborations, matching the existing HZB precedent (Simone Vadilonga). Not Hamburg/DESY-cluster-linked (HZB is Berlin-based). Germany's country count increases from 78 to 79. No explicit follow date was shown, so <strong>September 2026</strong> is assumed, unconfirmed. All totals, percentages, and charts in this report now reflect the full 140-follower set.
|
||||
<br><br><strong>Cross-track sync + incremental update (2026-09-30, 140→147):</strong> the End of Month Report session (track #6, shares this codebase) added 5 followers directly to the Directory on 2026-09-27 while auditing post likes/comments (Arunangshu Debnath, Simon Sebold, Martin Uhlig, Chen Shen, Philipp Brandt), correctly flagging in each record that full classification was still pending. This session completed that classification via web research: Philipp Brandt (Innovation Manager, Hi-Acts/DESY — a second Hi-Acts Innovation Manager alongside Johannes Blum, confirmed a real distinct person via his own LinkedIn profile, not a duplicate) classifies as Manager/Coordinator, Innovation/R&D Strategy, Academia/Research Institute; Arunangshu Debnath (Scientist, Quantum Dynamics/Nonlinear Optics/Quantum Imaging, DESY) and Chen Shen (Scientist, X-ray/Neutron Scattering, PETRA III Beamline P08, DESY) both classify as Researcher/Scientist (non-postdoc), Research/Science, Academia/Research Institute; Simon Sebold (PhD Researcher, Advanced Materials Group, Technische Universität München/Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum) classifies as Postdoc/PhD Researcher, Research/Science, Academia/Research Institute — the same TUM/MLZ affiliation flagged in an earlier name-lookup task this session, now confirmed as an actual follower. Martin Uhlig could not be confidently classified: two real, different DESY-adjacent Hamburg candidates exist (a DESY strategy-group scientist-manager and a Fraunhofer CAN researcher) with no way to confirm which one followed the page, so his record stays unclassified rather than guessed. LinkedIn URLs could not be confidently confirmed for Arunangshu Debnath (two distinct candidate profiles), Simon Sebold, Chen Shen, or Martin Uhlig — flagged as an open gap. Separately, two new followers were added from fresh screenshots: Namrata Sharma (2nd degree, "Experimental Materials Scientist | Electrochemistry | Operando Characterization | Scientific Instrumentation," Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Berlin, mutual connection with Peter) classifies as Researcher/Scientist (non-postdoc), Research/Science, Academia/Research Institute; Renske M. van der Veen (2nd degree, "Professor at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and Technical University Berlin," Berlin, mutual connections with Peter and Michael) classifies as Director/Head/Principal, Research/Science, Academia/Research Institute, matching the established Professor-as-Director/Head/Principal precedent (Paul Evans, William Joo). Both use Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin as Company (first-listed logo, matches Nima Amousa's existing HZB precedent), bringing HZB to 3 followers total — a new, genuine research-institute cluster, tracked in the Notable Clusters exclusion note since it's Berlin-based, not Hamburg/DESY-tied. DESY (any form) increases from 11 to 14 linked entries (Philipp Brandt, Arunangshu Debnath, Chen Shen); the Hamburg/DESY cluster's distinct headcount increases from 30 to 33. Germany's country count increases from 79 to 85 across all 7 additions. Along the way, two long-stale figures were caught and corrected: the "1st-degree connections" stat had read 7%/93% for several additions running when the live data actually rounds to 5%/95% at this total — fixed throughout. A separate "Research/Engineering readers" percentage (38%, in the messaging-takeaway section) could not be reconciled against any combination of live Function or Seniority fields at any point in this report's history and is flagged as a likely stale/unverifiable figure, not recomputed. All totals, percentages, and charts in this report now reflect the full 147-follower set.
|
||||
<br><br><strong>Correction (2026-09-30, same day):</strong> the 5 classifications above (Philipp Brandt, Arunangshu Debnath, Simon Sebold, Chen Shen, Martin Uhlig) were built on a contaminated Directory state — the End of Month Report session had added them straight from post-engagement audits (likes/comments) without verifying actual follow status, and at least one (Arunangshu Debnath) was directly confirmed to not follow the Page. All 5 have been moved out of the Directory into <code>outreach_contacts.py</code>, where engaged-non-follower records belong, per that file's own scope. Namrata Sharma and Renske M. van der Veen are confirmed genuine followers and were unaffected. This report has been fully recomputed against the corrected 142-follower set (140 baseline + those 2 real additions) — every chart and percentage above now reflects that, not the 147-follower figures this same log entry originally described. Re-checked the two figures flagged as drifted/unreconcilable in that entry: "1st-degree connections" correctly returns to 6%/94% at 142 (the 5%/95% figures were artifacts of the contaminated 147 count, not a genuine drift); the "Research/Engineering readers 38%" figure still can't be reconciled against any live Function/Seniority combination at 142 either — remains flagged as a likely stale, pre-existing figure unrelated to this correction. All totals, percentages, and charts in this report now reflect the full 142-follower set.
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</section>
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -398,35 +399,35 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
|
||||
|
||||
hbar('seniority-chart', [
|
||||
{label:'Other individual contributor', value:21},
|
||||
{label:'Unknown', value:15},
|
||||
{label:'Manager / Coordinator', value:19},
|
||||
{label:'Unknown', value:14},
|
||||
{label:'Manager / Coordinator', value:18},
|
||||
{label:'Engineer / Developer', value:18},
|
||||
{label:'Researcher / Scientist', value:18},
|
||||
{label:'Researcher / Scientist', value:16},
|
||||
{label:'Senior IC / Lead', value:8},
|
||||
{label:'Student / Trainee', value:10},
|
||||
{label:'C-Level / Founder', value:12},
|
||||
{label:'Director / Head / Principal', value:15},
|
||||
{label:'Postdoc / PhD researcher', value:9},
|
||||
{label:'Postdoc / PhD researcher', value:8},
|
||||
{label:'Junior IC', value:2},
|
||||
]);
|
||||
|
||||
hbar('function-chart', [
|
||||
{label:'Research / Science', value:40},
|
||||
{label:'Research / Science', value:37},
|
||||
{label:'Engineering / Technical', value:23},
|
||||
{label:'Unknown', value:15},
|
||||
{label:'Unknown', value:14},
|
||||
{label:'Business Development / Sales', value:15},
|
||||
{label:'Other', value:15},
|
||||
{label:'Executive / Management', value:14},
|
||||
{label:'Student / Academic track', value:10},
|
||||
{label:'Marketing / Comms / Ops', value:7},
|
||||
{label:'Innovation / R&D strategy', value:5},
|
||||
{label:'Innovation / R&D strategy', value:4},
|
||||
{label:'Regulatory / Compliance', value:1},
|
||||
{label:'Admin / Assistant', value:1},
|
||||
{label:'Unrelated (out of field)', value:1},
|
||||
]);
|
||||
|
||||
hbar('sector-chart', [
|
||||
{label:'Academia / Research institute', value:57, color:'var(--series-1)'},
|
||||
{label:'Academia / Research institute', value:53, color:'var(--series-1)'},
|
||||
{label:'Other named company', value:40, color:'var(--series-2)'},
|
||||
{label:'Photonics / Laser / Optics industry', value:8, color:'var(--series-3)'},
|
||||
{label:'Semiconductor / Aerospace / Defense', value:11, color:'var(--series-4)'},
|
||||
@@ -435,7 +436,7 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
|
||||
]);
|
||||
|
||||
hbar('geography-chart', [
|
||||
{label:'Germany', value:85, color:'var(--series-1)'},
|
||||
{label:'Germany', value:81, color:'var(--series-1)'},
|
||||
{label:'United States', value:7, color:'var(--series-2)'},
|
||||
{label:'United Kingdom', value:3, color:'var(--series-3)'},
|
||||
{label:'Switzerland', value:5, color:'var(--series-4)'},
|
||||
@@ -447,14 +448,14 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
|
||||
{label:'India', value:3, color:'var(--series-6)'},
|
||||
{label:'Italy', value:2, color:'var(--series-7)'},
|
||||
{label:'Other (12 more, 1 each)', value:12, color:'var(--series-5)'},
|
||||
{label:'No company listed', value:17},
|
||||
{label:'No company listed', value:16},
|
||||
]);
|
||||
|
||||
hbar('connection-chart', [
|
||||
{label:'3rd degree', value:60},
|
||||
{label:'2nd degree', value:67},
|
||||
{label:'1st degree', value:8},
|
||||
{label:'Unlisted / self', value:12},
|
||||
{label:'Unlisted / self', value:7},
|
||||
]);
|
||||
|
||||
// growth timeline (vertical bars)
|
||||
@@ -466,7 +467,7 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
|
||||
{label:'2025 H1', value:7},
|
||||
{label:'2025 H2', value:12},
|
||||
{label:'2026 H1', value:16},
|
||||
{label:'2026 H2*', value:62},
|
||||
{label:'2026 H2*', value:57},
|
||||
];
|
||||
const gEl = document.getElementById('growth-chart');
|
||||
const gLabels = document.getElementById('growth-labels');
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in new issue
Block a user