Add Alexander Rack and Tina Schmidt, 108 to 110 followers
Alexander Rack (ESRF synchrotron scientist, Grenoble) and Tina Schmidt (HZDR innovation manager) added to the Directory and Study, full recompute applied. Both checked against the Jul 28 vs Aug 3 export diff and confirmed genuinely not yet visible in any export (unlike the last 3 additions), so dated August 2026 same as before.
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<h1>TXproducts Follower Directory</h1>
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<p class="sub">A searchable, filterable card view of every TXproducts follower (updated 2026-08-03)</p>
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<p class="sub">A searchable, filterable card view of every TXproducts follower (updated 2026-08-03, second pass)</p>
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const DATA = [{"name": "Tamadur AlBaraghtheh", "connection": "1st", "position": "Researcher", "company": "Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "Germany", "city": "Geesthacht (near Hamburg)", "personalLocation": "Hamburg, Germany", "seniority": "Researcher/Scientist (non-postdoc)", "function": "Research/Science", "sector": "Academia/Research Institute"}, {"name": "Alexej Kotelnikov", "connection": "3rd", "position": "Senior KAM & BD (Automotive/Tech/Industrial)", "company": "Bosch Automotive Service Solutions GmbH", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "Germany", "city": "Plochingen (near Stuttgart)", "personalLocation": "Greater Munich Metropolitan Area", "seniority": "Senior IC/Lead", "function": "Business Development/Sales", "sector": "Other named company"}, {"name": "Katrin Boeke-Purkis", "connection": "3rd", "position": "Regulatory Post Market Compliance Coordinator", "company": "Intuitive Surgical", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "United States", "city": "Sunnyvale, California (HQ)", "personalLocation": "Sunnyvale, California, United States", "seniority": "Manager/Coordinator", "function": "Regulatory/Compliance", "sector": "Medical/Life Sciences"}, {"name": "Timo Christian", "connection": "2nd", "position": "Program Manager", "company": "Impossible Founders and DESY", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "Germany", "city": "Hamburg", "personalLocation": "Hamburg, Germany", "seniority": "Manager/Coordinator", "function": "Marketing/Comms/Ops", "sector": "Academia/Research Institute"}, {"name": "Jan-Christian Schober", "connection": "3rd", "position": "Student", "company": "University of Hamburg", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "Germany", "city": "Hamburg", "personalLocation": "Hamburg, Germany", "seniority": "Student/Trainee", "function": "Student/Academic Track", "sector": "Academia/Research Institute"}, {"name": "Benedikt Kubicki", "connection": "2nd", "position": "SAP-Berater", "company": "SI PRO GmbH", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "Germany", "city": "Mannheim (HQ); has a Hamburg office", "personalLocation": "Hamburg, Germany", "seniority": "Manager/Coordinator", "function": "Engineering/Technical", "sector": "Other named company"}, {"name": "Brahim Al", "connection": "3rd", "position": "Technical service (Medical imaging devices)", "company": "T.B.S biomedicale (TBS Group)", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "France", "city": "Charbonnières-les-Bains / Rungis area, France (TBS Group HQ; pan-European biomedical engineering services co. — Brahim's stated personal location is Germany, likely a local branch)", "personalLocation": "Germany", "seniority": "Other Individual Contributor", "function": "Engineering/Technical", "sector": "Medical/Life Sciences"}, {"name": "Zoia Budianska", "connection": "1st", "position": "Инспектор (Inspector)", "company": "Kiev Medical University", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "Ukraine", "city": "Kyiv", "personalLocation": "", "seniority": "Researcher/Scientist (non-postdoc)", "function": "Research/Science", "sector": "Academia/Research Institute"}, {"name": "Sadegh Mahvidi", "connection": "3rd", "position": "Technical Manager / Research Scientist (title truncated)", "company": "Paint-Inspector.Com", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "Czech Republic", "city": "Brno", "personalLocation": "Zlín, Zlín, Czechia", "seniority": "Manager/Coordinator", "function": "Research/Science", "sector": "Other named company"}, {"name": "Carina Hedrich", "connection": "2nd", "position": "Postdoc (Materials Science / Electron Microscopy)", "company": "", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "", "city": "", "personalLocation": "", "seniority": "Postdoc/PhD Researcher", "function": "Research/Science", "sector": "Likely research/photonics-adjacent (no company listed)"}, {"name": "Anatoli Panas", "connection": "3rd", "position": "Softwareentwickler .NET & C#", "company": "", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "", "city": "", "personalLocation": "", "seniority": "Engineer/Developer", "function": "Other", "sector": "Unknown (no company listed)"}, {"name": "Antonina Berkivska", "connection": "2nd", "position": "Partnerships Builder", "company": "Negentrix", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "Germany", "city": "Berlin", "personalLocation": "Austria", "seniority": "Other Individual Contributor", "function": "Business Development/Sales", "sector": "Other named company"}, {"name": "Viktor Zarnytskyi", "connection": "2nd", "position": "Junior Full-Stack Web Developer", "company": "", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "", "city": "", "personalLocation": "", "seniority": "Junior IC", "funcLine truncated
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const DATA = [{"name": "Tamadur AlBaraghtheh", "connection": "1st", "position": "Researcher", "company": "Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "Germany", "city": "Geesthacht (near Hamburg)", "personalLocation": "Hamburg, Germany", "seniority": "Researcher/Scientist (non-postdoc)", "function": "Research/Science", "sector": "Academia/Research Institute"}, {"name": "Alexej Kotelnikov", "connection": "3rd", "position": "Senior KAM & BD (Automotive/Tech/Industrial)", "company": "Bosch Automotive Service Solutions GmbH", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "Germany", "city": "Plochingen (near Stuttgart)", "personalLocation": "Greater Munich Metropolitan Area", "seniority": "Senior IC/Lead", "function": "Business Development/Sales", "sector": "Other named company"}, {"name": "Katrin Boeke-Purkis", "connection": "3rd", "position": "Regulatory Post Market Compliance Coordinator", "company": "Intuitive Surgical", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "United States", "city": "Sunnyvale, California (HQ)", "personalLocation": "Sunnyvale, California, United States", "seniority": "Manager/Coordinator", "function": "Regulatory/Compliance", "sector": "Medical/Life Sciences"}, {"name": "Timo Christian", "connection": "2nd", "position": "Program Manager", "company": "Impossible Founders and DESY", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "Germany", "city": "Hamburg", "personalLocation": "Hamburg, Germany", "seniority": "Manager/Coordinator", "function": "Marketing/Comms/Ops", "sector": "Academia/Research Institute"}, {"name": "Jan-Christian Schober", "connection": "3rd", "position": "Student", "company": "University of Hamburg", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "Germany", "city": "Hamburg", "personalLocation": "Hamburg, Germany", "seniority": "Student/Trainee", "function": "Student/Academic Track", "sector": "Academia/Research Institute"}, {"name": "Benedikt Kubicki", "connection": "2nd", "position": "SAP-Berater", "company": "SI PRO GmbH", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "Germany", "city": "Mannheim (HQ); has a Hamburg office", "personalLocation": "Hamburg, Germany", "seniority": "Manager/Coordinator", "function": "Engineering/Technical", "sector": "Other named company"}, {"name": "Brahim Al", "connection": "3rd", "position": "Technical service (Medical imaging devices)", "company": "T.B.S biomedicale (TBS Group)", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "France", "city": "Charbonnières-les-Bains / Rungis area, France (TBS Group HQ; pan-European biomedical engineering services co. — Brahim's stated personal location is Germany, likely a local branch)", "personalLocation": "Germany", "seniority": "Other Individual Contributor", "function": "Engineering/Technical", "sector": "Medical/Life Sciences"}, {"name": "Zoia Budianska", "connection": "1st", "position": "Инспектор (Inspector)", "company": "Kiev Medical University", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "Ukraine", "city": "Kyiv", "personalLocation": "", "seniority": "Researcher/Scientist (non-postdoc)", "function": "Research/Science", "sector": "Academia/Research Institute"}, {"name": "Sadegh Mahvidi", "connection": "3rd", "position": "Technical Manager / Research Scientist (title truncated)", "company": "Paint-Inspector.Com", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "Czech Republic", "city": "Brno", "personalLocation": "Zlín, Zlín, Czechia", "seniority": "Manager/Coordinator", "function": "Research/Science", "sector": "Other named company"}, {"name": "Carina Hedrich", "connection": "2nd", "position": "Postdoc (Materials Science / Electron Microscopy)", "company": "", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "", "city": "", "personalLocation": "", "seniority": "Postdoc/PhD Researcher", "function": "Research/Science", "sector": "Likely research/photonics-adjacent (no company listed)"}, {"name": "Anatoli Panas", "connection": "3rd", "position": "Softwareentwickler .NET & C#", "company": "", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "", "city": "", "personalLocation": "", "seniority": "Engineer/Developer", "function": "Other", "sector": "Unknown (no company listed)"}, {"name": "Antonina Berkivska", "connection": "2nd", "position": "Partnerships Builder", "company": "Negentrix", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "Germany", "city": "Berlin", "personalLocation": "Austria", "seniority": "Other Individual Contributor", "function": "Business Development/Sales", "sector": "Other named company"}, {"name": "Viktor Zarnytskyi", "connection": "2nd", "position": "Junior Full-Stack Web Developer", "company": "", "followed": "July 2026", "followedSort": "2026-07", "country": "", "city": "", "personalLocation": "", "seniority": "Junior IC", "funcLine truncated
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<h1>TXproducts LinkedIn Follower Study</h1>
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<p class="sub">A full manual audit of all 108 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 10 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), plus two rounds of profile re-screenshotting to close data gaps on existing followers · Compiled/updated 2026-08-03</div>
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<p class="sub">A full manual audit of all 110 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 12 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), 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">108</div><div class="lbl">total followers audited</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">84%</div><div class="lbl">have a company listed (17 of 108 show no company)</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">7%<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 108) — the rest are 2nd/3rd degree</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">23<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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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">110</div><div class="lbl">total followers audited</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">85%</div><div class="lbl">have a company listed (17 of 110 show no company)</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">7%<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 110) — the rest are 2nd/3rd degree</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">25<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 108 followers (39%) 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 → 23-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>Growth has two distinct eras.</strong> 42 of 110 followers (38%) 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 → 25-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 (7%) are 1st-degree connections. 93% 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 91 followers with an identifiable employer, 34 (37%) 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 and a Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin postdoc) and another 8 (9%) work at dedicated photonics/laser companies (Class 5 Photonics, Coherent, WiredSense, Living Optics, Lace Lithography, X-Spectrum, Cycle GmbH, LANO Photonics). Together that's 46% 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 7 linked entries, University of Hamburg 3, 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 (2). <strong>22 distinct followers</strong> (24% of the 91 named-company followers) now trace to this local ecosystem, up from 12 before this round of detective work. (TXproducts itself now has 3 followers — our own CEO, our Marketing & Sales Manager, and one internal team member — 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> 27 followers (25%) hold C-level/Founder, Director/Head/Principal, or Senior IC/Lead titles — a notably senior slice for an organic Page audience, and now includes an Infineon Austria CEO and a US professor — while 16 (15%) 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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<li><strong>Where a sector is identifiable, it clusters hard around synchrotron/photonics research.</strong> Of the 93 followers with an identifiable employer, 36 (39%) 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, a Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin postdoc, an ESRF synchrotron scientist, and a Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf innovation manager) and another 8 (9%) work at dedicated photonics/laser companies (Class 5 Photonics, Coherent, WiredSense, Living Optics, Lace Lithography, X-Spectrum, Cycle GmbH, LANO Photonics). Together that's 47% 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 7 linked entries, University of Hamburg 3, 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 (2). <strong>22 distinct followers</strong> (24% of the 93 named-company followers) now trace to this local ecosystem, up from 12 before this round of detective work. (TXproducts itself now has 3 followers — our own CEO, our Marketing & Sales Manager, and one internal team member — 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> 27 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 and a US professor — while 16 (15%) 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. 17 of 108 followers (16%) list no company at all, and 13 (12%) 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 108 — 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. 17 of 110 followers (15%) list no company at all, and 13 (12%) 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 110 — treat every percentage as directional, not exhaustive.</div>
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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 91 named companies confirms it: <strong>62% are based in Germany, and 34% 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 93 named companies confirms it: <strong>61% are based in Germany, and 33% 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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<h3>Today's audience is not the 2023 launch cohort.</h3>
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<p><strong>61% of followers joined after the original 2023 launch spike</strong>, including 47% of the entire audience in just the last ~13 months (H2 2025 onward), after a 2-year dormant stretch in between. Messaging built around "who followed us at launch" is out of date — the growth happening right now is the audience to design for.</p>
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<p><strong>62% of followers joined after the original 2023 launch spike</strong>, including 48% of the entire audience in just the last ~13 months (H2 2025 onward), after a 2-year dormant stretch in between. Messaging built around "who followed us at launch" is out of date — the growth happening right now is the audience to design for.</p>
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<p class="note">Concrete next steps, each one traceable back to the messaging implications above rather than generic LinkedIn advice.</p>
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<li><strong>Lean into the Hamburg/DESY identity on purpose.</strong> With 35% 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>Lean into the Hamburg/DESY identity on purpose.</strong> With 33% 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 7% 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> 47% 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>Post more, now, while the reacceleration is live.</strong> 48% 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>
|
||||
<li><strong>Design a specific track for the student/trainee segment.</strong> 15% of followers are students or trainees — a distinct content type (internship pipeline, academic collaboration spotlights) speaks directly to them instead of being talked past by practitioner-level content.</li>
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<div class="vbar-labels" id="growth-labels"></div>
|
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<div class="legend-note">2026-H2 covers only the first few weeks so far (through 2026-08-03) — already 23 followers, on pace to exceed every prior half-year except the 2023 launch.</div>
|
||||
<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> Growth is a recent story, not a 2023 story — 61% of all followers joined after the original 2023 launch spike, and 47% of the entire audience arrived in just the last ~13 months (H2 2025 onward). Any "who we've built alongside" narrative should center on the current wave, not the launch cohort, and posting cadence should scale up now while the reacceleration is active rather than treating growth as flat and evergreen.</div>
|
||||
<div class="legend-note">2026-H2 covers only the first few weeks so far (through 2026-08-03) — already 25 followers, on pace to exceed every prior half-year except the 2023 launch.</div>
|
||||
<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> Growth is a recent story, not a 2023 story — 62% of all followers joined after the original 2023 launch spike, and 48% of the entire audience arrived in just the last ~13 months (H2 2025 onward). Any "who we've built alongside" narrative should center on the current wave, not the launch cohort, and posting cadence should scale up now while the reacceleration is active rather than treating growth as flat and evergreen.</div>
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</section>
|
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@@ -271,27 +271,27 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
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<p class="note">What kind of work the role does, independent of seniority.</p>
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|
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<div class="hbar-chart" id="function-chart"></div>
|
||||
<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> Research/Science (24) and Engineering/Technical (17) together are 38% of the audience — content with real technical substance (methods, data, instrumentation detail) will outperform generic marketing copy for over a third of followers. Business Development/Sales (11) and Executive/Management (12) are the next-largest blocks — together a fifth of the audience that responds better to partnership/ROI framing than to technical depth.</div>
|
||||
<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> Research/Science (25) and Engineering/Technical (17) together are 38% of the audience — content with real technical substance (methods, data, instrumentation detail) will outperform generic marketing copy for over a third of followers. Business Development/Sales (11) and Executive/Management (12) are the next-largest blocks — together a fifth of the audience that responds better to partnership/ROI framing than to technical depth.</div>
|
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</div>
|
||||
</section>
|
||||
|
||||
<section>
|
||||
<h2>Sector — of the 91 followers with an identifiable employer</h2>
|
||||
<p class="note">The other 17 of 108 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>
|
||||
<h2>Sector — of the 93 followers with an identifiable employer</h2>
|
||||
<p class="note">The other 17 of 110 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>
|
||||
<div class="panel">
|
||||
<div class="hbar-chart" id="sector-chart"></div>
|
||||
<div class="limitation"><span class="tag">Limitation:</span> this chart only covers the 91 followers with an identifiable employer — the other 17 of 108 (16%) list no company at all and are excluded entirely, not folded into any bar above.</div>
|
||||
<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> Academia/Research (34) and Photonics/Laser/Optics industry (8) together are 46% 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>
|
||||
<div class="limitation"><span class="tag">Limitation:</span> this chart only covers the 93 followers with an identifiable employer — the other 17 of 110 (15%) list no company at all and are excluded entirely, not folded into any bar above.</div>
|
||||
<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> Academia/Research (36) and Photonics/Laser/Optics industry (8) together are 47% 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>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</section>
|
||||
|
||||
<section>
|
||||
<h2>Geography — of the 91 followers with a company (fully resolved)</h2>
|
||||
<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 91 named companies now has a country assigned — 78 at High confidence, 13 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 75 of 108 followers.</p>
|
||||
<h2>Geography — of the 93 followers with a company (fully resolved)</h2>
|
||||
<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 93 named companies now has a country assigned — 79 at High confidence, 14 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 77 of 110 followers.</p>
|
||||
<div class="panel">
|
||||
<div class="hbar-chart" id="geography-chart"></div>
|
||||
<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, and Hitesh Dudhagara is personally in Surat, Gujarat while his listed university affiliation resolves to Rajkot. The 62% Germany / 34% Hamburg figures describe where employers are headquartered, not necessarily where the 91 people physically are — treat this chart as an ecosystem-affiliation signal, not a literal map of the audience.</div>
|
||||
<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> <strong>62% of named-company followers are affiliated with a Germany-headquartered organization, and 34% 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>
|
||||
<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, and Hitesh Dudhagara is personally in Surat, Gujarat while his listed university affiliation resolves to Rajkot. The 61% Germany / 33% Hamburg figures describe where employers are headquartered, not necessarily where the 93 people physically are — treat this chart as an ecosystem-affiliation signal, not a literal map of the audience.</div>
|
||||
<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> <strong>61% of named-company followers are affiliated with a Germany-headquartered organization, and 33% 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>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</section>
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
|
||||
|
||||
<section>
|
||||
<h2>Notable organizational clusters</h2>
|
||||
<p class="note">Named organizations appearing more than once in the 91 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.)</p>
|
||||
<p class="note">Named organizations appearing more than once in the 93 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. ESRF and HZDR, both added 2026-08-03, are each single-follower research institutes 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>
|
||||
<div class="panel">
|
||||
<table class="data-table">
|
||||
<tr><th>Organization</th><th>Followers</th><th>Note</th></tr>
|
||||
@@ -344,6 +344,7 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
|
||||
<br><br><strong>Incremental update (2026-07-30, four more re-checks):</strong> Emma Xia's employer was confirmed as LANO Photonics Co., Ltd, Changchun, Jilin, China (her headline "Leader in Optical Manufacturing... Camera and Lens Production" plus her own contact emails at lanoptico.com match the company exactly) — the first China-based follower in this dataset, and "lano photonics" was added to the same Photonics/Laser/Optics keyword list as Class 5 Photonics and Coherent. Mårten Edwards' tagline resolved to a real title and employer, per the user directly: Innovation & R&D Consultant at Edwards Science & Technology AB, Uppsala, Sweden (an "AB" company, likely his own consultancy given the shared surname). Mudabar Ahmad Mubashar's employer was confirmed as Canon EMEA, working specifically at Canon's Dresden, Germany site (a semiconductor/nanofabrication-equipment role, per his headline's Vacuum Technology/PVD/UHV/Semiconductors focus) — "canon" was added to the same semiconductor-equipment keyword list as ASML, Evatec, and Intel. Martin Schröter's tagline ("Entrepreneurial chemist") resolved to Co-Founder & CBO of SURFACtoBioTech, Hamburg, Germany, per the user directly.
|
||||
<br><br><strong>Incremental update (2026-08-03, 103→108):</strong> five new followers were added from freshly-screenshotted profiles and classified the same way as every prior addition. Milena Petković (2nd degree, "Head of Research Group | AI/ML, Computational Modeling & Optimization for Complex Systems" at Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung, Berlin) mechanically classifies as Director/Head/Principal, Research/Science, Academia/Research Institute — she's the 4th follower at IKZ, joining Head of PR, Head of Strategic Science Mgmt, and Group Leader. Paul Evans (2nd degree, "Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison," also listing Harvard University, personally in Madison, Wisconsin) classifies as Director/Head/Principal, Research/Science, Academia/Research Institute — the first University of Wisconsin-Madison follower and only the 6th United States-based follower overall. Sabine E. Herlitschka (2nd degree, Chief Executive Officer of Infineon Technologies Austria AG, personally in Austria) classifies as C-Level/Founder, Executive/Management, Semiconductor/Aerospace/Defense (Infineon added to the same semiconductor keyword list as ASML, Evatec, Intel, and Canon) — and is the first Austria-based follower to reach 2 in that country (a from-2023 follower was already Austria-based but unnamed in the Geography "Other" bucket), so Austria now gets its own row instead of folding into "Other." Simone Vadilonga (2nd degree, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, also listing Freie Universität Berlin, personally in Berlin Metropolitan Area) classifies as Postdoc/PhD researcher, Research/Science, Academia/Research Institute. Hitesh Dudhagara (3rd degree, a tagline-only profile built around diamond-solutions marketing copy rather than a real job title, listing Saurashtra University, personally in Surat, Gujarat) classifies as Unknown seniority/function — consistent with how other tagline-only-but-company-listed profiles are handled — but Academia/Research Institute for sector, since a university is still a real, identifiable employer even without a usable title; his employer's actual campus (Rajkot, Gujarat) differs from his personal location (Surat, Gujarat), the first India-based entry in this dataset. None of the five are Hamburg/DESY-cluster-linked. All five initially assumed a "Followed" month of August 2026 (this update's date), since none of the five profile-page screenshots showed an explicit follow date — see the correction immediately below, which revised three of these five.
|
||||
<br><br><strong>Date correction (2026-08-03, same-day):</strong> a discrepancy surfaced between the Directory's count (108) and the dashboard's independently-tracked cumulative follower count (107, capped at Aug 1 data) — investigated by diffing the Location breakdown between a July 28 export (pre-dating this update) and the newest August 3 export, isolating exactly which categories changed across the dashboard's already-recorded July 30 (+3) and July 31 (+4) growth. "Greater Madison Area" appeared as a brand-new location (didn't exist at all in the July 28 snapshot) and "Berlin Metropolitan Area, Germany" increased by exactly 2 — both point-for-point matches to Paul Evans (Madison) and Milena Petković + Simone Vadilonga (both Berlin) from the five additions above. This means these three almost certainly joined in the dashboard's already-tracked July 30–31 window, not August as originally assumed — their "Followed" dates are corrected to <strong>July 2026</strong> in the Directory (108→108, no headcount change, only date attribution). Sabine E. Herlitschka (Austria) and Hitesh Dudhagara (India) remain dated August 2026: neither Austria's nor India's follower count changed at all between the July 28 and August 3 exports, consistent with them being genuinely more recent joins the weekly export data hasn't caught up to yet (LinkedIn's exports run 1–2 days behind real-time). One more real follower from this same July 30–31 window (matching Aachen, Hamburg, or Uppsala in the location diff) remains unidentified — those locations already had multiple pre-existing followers before this window, so a same-location delta there can't be confidently attributed to one specific person the way the brand-new Madison location could. All totals, percentages, and charts in this report reflect the full 108-follower set with all enrichment applied to date; the growth timeline is unaffected by this correction since both July and August fall within the same "2026 H2" half-year bucket.
|
||||
<br><br><strong>Incremental update (2026-08-03, 108→110):</strong> two more new followers were added the same day, from freshly-screenshotted profiles. Alexander Rack (2nd degree, "Scientist @ European Synchrotron Radiation Facility | X-ray Imaging Development," also listing Technische Universität Berlin, personally in Grenoble, France) classifies as Researcher/Scientist (non-postdoc), Research/Science, Academia/Research Institute — ESRF is a major synchrotron facility, a direct sector peer to DESY, reinforcing this report's core finding even as a standalone entry (not yet part of the Notable Clusters table, since no other ESRF followers exist yet). France's country count increases from 2 to 3 as a result. Tina Schmidt (3rd degree, "Innovation Manager SAXFUSION | connecting the fusion ecosystem" at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), personal location only stated as "Germany," no specific city) classifies as Manager/Coordinator, Innovation/R&D Strategy, Academia/Research Institute — Medium confidence on geography, since her profile doesn't confirm Dresden specifically the way Alexander's confirms Grenoble. Checked both against the same July 28 vs. August 3 export diff used in the correction above: neither France (Montpellier, unchanged at 1) nor any Dresden-area location showed any change, so both are genuinely new, unconfirmed-date joins — dated August 2026 the same way, flagged the same way. All totals, percentages, and charts in this report now reflect the full 110-follower set.
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</section>
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -376,9 +377,9 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
|
||||
hbar('seniority-chart', [
|
||||
{label:'Other individual contributor', value:17},
|
||||
{label:'Unknown', value:13},
|
||||
{label:'Manager / Coordinator', value:15},
|
||||
{label:'Manager / Coordinator', value:16},
|
||||
{label:'Engineer / Developer', value:13},
|
||||
{label:'Researcher / Scientist', value:10},
|
||||
{label:'Researcher / Scientist', value:11},
|
||||
{label:'Senior IC / Lead', value:7},
|
||||
{label:'Student / Trainee', value:7},
|
||||
{label:'C-Level / Founder', value:10},
|
||||
@@ -388,7 +389,7 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
|
||||
]);
|
||||
|
||||
hbar('function-chart', [
|
||||
{label:'Research / Science', value:24},
|
||||
{label:'Research / Science', value:25},
|
||||
{label:'Engineering / Technical', value:17},
|
||||
{label:'Unknown', value:13},
|
||||
{label:'Business Development / Sales', value:11},
|
||||
@@ -396,14 +397,14 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
|
||||
{label:'Executive / Management', value:12},
|
||||
{label:'Student / Academic track', value:7},
|
||||
{label:'Marketing / Comms / Ops', value:5},
|
||||
{label:'Innovation / R&D strategy', value:3},
|
||||
{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:34, color:'var(--series-1)'},
|
||||
{label:'Academia / Research institute', value:36, color:'var(--series-1)'},
|
||||
{label:'Other named company', value:34, color:'var(--series-2)'},
|
||||
{label:'Photonics / Laser / Optics industry', value:8, color:'var(--series-3)'},
|
||||
{label:'Semiconductor / Aerospace / Defense', value:8, color:'var(--series-4)'},
|
||||
@@ -412,21 +413,21 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
|
||||
]);
|
||||
|
||||
hbar('geography-chart', [
|
||||
{label:'Germany', value:56, color:'var(--series-1)'},
|
||||
{label:'Germany', value:57, color:'var(--series-1)'},
|
||||
{label:'United States', value:6, color:'var(--series-2)'},
|
||||
{label:'United Kingdom', value:3, color:'var(--series-3)'},
|
||||
{label:'Switzerland', value:4, color:'var(--series-4)'},
|
||||
{label:'Sweden', value:3, color:'var(--series-6)'},
|
||||
{label:'Austria', value:2, color:'var(--series-8)'},
|
||||
{label:'France', value:2, color:'var(--series-7)'},
|
||||
{label:'France', value:3, color:'var(--series-7)'},
|
||||
{label:'Belgium', value:2, color:'var(--series-8)'},
|
||||
{label:'Other (13 more, 1 each)', value:13, color:'var(--series-5)'},
|
||||
{label:'No company listed', value:17},
|
||||
]);
|
||||
|
||||
hbar('connection-chart', [
|
||||
{label:'3rd degree', value:51},
|
||||
{label:'2nd degree', value:44},
|
||||
{label:'3rd degree', value:52},
|
||||
{label:'2nd degree', value:45},
|
||||
{label:'1st degree', value:8},
|
||||
{label:'Unlisted / self', value:5},
|
||||
]);
|
||||
@@ -440,7 +441,7 @@ 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:23},
|
||||
{label:'2026 H2*', value:25},
|
||||
];
|
||||
const gEl = document.getElementById('growth-chart');
|
||||
const gLabels = document.getElementById('growth-labels');
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in new issue
Block a user