phgubbins's Quick takes

I wonder if, on forms requiring someone to fill out, "How are you engaged with EA?" 

With answers like:

"Accepted a job/changed career path due to EA", "Changed college studies...", "Committed to donating x% income/year", "Have gone to an EAG", "Engage with EA Forum/rationalist blogs", etc.

Would it make sense to include "Changed diet due to EA considerations"? (or perhaps 'my diet is in line with EA considerations for animal welfare'? Though I doubt EA really prescribes a certain diet... so perhaps here is a clue as to why it's not included.)

I just recall filling out a form with some org that had these options and not the last one, and I was surprised that animal welfare was not represented/something that I try to do and attribute to EA was not represented. Especially since I think, as a behavior, it could also be a decent proxy for someone's engagement (perhaps investment/sacrifice?) with EA.

So, I suppose not much of a call to action considering I cannot even name where I encountered this, more a comment on the breeze about how animal welfare feels waylaid to me. But if someone also has further insight into my predicament I'd appreciate the help.

Recently I was looking around EA organizations and I thought it might be useful to have a visualization of this database compiled by Michel Justen. This visualization was rushed out as part of a hackathon with AE Studio and with the help of Jean Mayer, a dev there.

https://ae.studio/ea/organizations

This is pretty rudimentary and feedback is more than welcome, especially regarding how I might best compile some of the below data to include in a future version in an actual post.

• Organization size by workers (as represented by bubble size)
• Funding per the organization (as represented by bubble size) (and also per cause area)
• Potentially provide data over time
• Perhaps a short blurb to further specify how orgs within a cause area differ from each other
• Other info?

Also, I think it could certainly look better by (spending more time on the visualization looking nice) having the cause areas be better truncated regarding some orgs with a lot of cause areas.

This could provide a cool visualization of the comparative efforts within our community by cause area by ‘bubble size’, and help people understand a bit more about EA organizations and what it means to be ‘EA’.