Some comments on data analysis: "How the Startup Index Ranking System Works: This index is built on a weighted points system which considers the following fact

Some comments on data analysis: "How the Startup Index Ranking System Works: This index is built on a weighted points system which considers the following factors: website traffic, social media following, social media engagement, employee count, page rank, inbound links, and SEOmoz domain trust score." The weightings should be published, the establish trust in the measure. These features are useful for evaluating B2C companies, but not B2B as much. A company can be silently killing it in B2B but not have good traffic / social scores. For this graph: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0ApqWF3CqjgjSdEwzbkdSVzdCTGljMGUtLU4tVnpzY2c&oid=2&zx=hcdkx3bwckur https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0ApqWF3CqjgjSdE... Don't make the y-axis "Natural log of total funding". 12.5 or 15? What does that mean? Instead, show the total funding in $MM, and put the y-axis on a log-scale.