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CEO DEPARTURES: The Artometrics of CEO Departures

This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2021-04-27 release on CEO Departures — 9,423 rows after cleaning and merge.

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CEO DEPARTURES: The Artometrics of CEO Departures
This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2021-04-27 release on CEO Departures — 9,423 rows after cleaning and merge.

This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2021-04-27 release on CEO Departures9,423 rows after cleaning and merge. How long do CEOs last before departure — and how do exits cluster?

Five charts track Max tenure ceodb across time, category, and named entities — trend, leaders, distribution, tiers, and relationships. Where companion files exist in the repo, they are joined before analysis so reception, geography, or metadata columns are not left on the table.

FAST FACTS

9,423Records in the working dataset
1.00Median Max tenure ceodb
4.00Highest observed Max tenure ceodb
PHOTRONICS INCTop Coname by Max tenure ceodb
InterimMost common Interim coceo

DATASET CONTEXT

The source is the TidyTuesday release from 2021-04-27 (R for Data Science community). This working file contains 9,423 rows and 19 columns after merging all available CSV/XLSX tables in the week folder.

Charts are exported as Plotly JSON with PNG fallbacks. Medians are used for robustness where distributions skew. Index-style fields (row numbers, sequential IDs) are excluded from metric selection.

How to read this report: start with the chart caption, then ask what the metric actually means, what a non-expert should notice first, and what an expert would challenge in the source. The goal is not to memorize every number; it is to leave with a sharper question than the one you arrived with.

Reader path: if you are new to the topic, treat each chart as a guided tour of one question: who leads, how concentrated the field is, what changes over time, and where the outliers sit. If you already know the domain, use the same charts as a challenge: check whether the metric is the right proxy, whether the source omits an important population, and whether the headline survives the limitations section.

CHART 1 — BREAKDOWN

Max tenure ceodb by Coname

CONVERSANT INC leads at 2.50; AVATEX CORP anchors the low end at 2.00.

Grouping by coname exposes how the metric varies across the catalog's major entities.

CHART 2 — LEADERS

CONVERSANT INC leads at 2.50 — 2.00 marks the median among the top dozen

CONVERSANT INC leads at 2.502.00 marks the median among the top dozen.

Head-of-field concentration is where quality, scale, or brand visibly separates from the pack.

CHART 3 — DISTRIBUTION

Max tenure ceodb by Interim coceo

Category boxes reveal whether max tenure ceodb consensus is shared or contested across tiers.

Wide whiskers flag segments where outliers — not averages — drive reputation.

CHART 4 — GAP ANALYSIS

Max tenure ceodb vs median by Interim coceo

CO-ceo sits 1.00 above the median; CO-CEO trails by 0.00.

Diverging from the median exposes which tiers over- or under-perform — not just who ranks first.

SUPPLEMENT — RELATIONSHIP

Max tenure ceodb vs Tenure no ceodb

Joint plot of max tenure ceodb and tenure no ceodb surfaces clusters the averages erase.

Bubble size tracks repeat presence — outliers are archetypes, not noise.

LIMITATIONS

Community-cleaned TidyTuesday snapshots are not live APIs. Missing values, spelling variants, and week-of-export coverage limits apply. Merged tables may fan out or duplicate rows when join keys are imperfect.

Findings describe the file on hand — treat them as structural signals about CEO Departures, not exhaustive truth about the full domain.

CONCLUSION

Read as a teaching map, CEO Departures shows why one metric is rarely enough: leaders, tails, trends, and relationships each answer a different question about max tenure ceodb.

The best reading is modest: use the chart to sharpen the question, then check the source and limits before turning it into a claim.

REFERENCES

Data Science Learning Community. (2021). TidyTuesday: CEO Departures. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/main/data/2021/2021-04-27/departures.csv

EDITOR'S NOTE

Artometrics data report from the TidyTuesday research pipeline. Charts and aggregates are reproducible from the embedded exhibits and public source files.

View TidyTuesday source on GitHub