You're being unreasonable and harsh. The infographic and its methodology are straightforward; as the footnote at the bottom of the infographic notes, > The ind

You're being unreasonable and harsh. The infographic and its methodology are straightforward; as the footnote at the bottom of the infographic notes, > The index is a gauge of startup activity that equally considers capital raised, deal count, first financings, and exit count. Each of the input factors is normalized for its historical volatility and then the normalized factors are combined in equal proportions to form a normalized index for constructing this barometer. That's a very straightforward and defensible methodology. Really the only bone I would have to pick is that (AFAICT) the data is rebased to April 2007, which is a bit arbitrary -- but not sure how else I would have established base values if it were me doing it.