November 11, 2008

A natural bar graph

colored pencil use by color

notes:

1. i’ve been using these pencils on and off since 1992.

2. The y data is naturally labeled.

3. a more correct title would be: “color pencil disuse by color,” though use is a type of disuse.

4. the pencil on the far left (aqua-green) was never used (for reasons that i can’t go into here) and thus makes for a nice control.

5. notice how the most used colors follow this precise order: blues, reds, greens, browns and are all earthtones.

6. look at that cluster of warm colors in the middle. what up with dat?

7. i wonder if someone else’s graph would turn out in a similar fashion or if this is a unique fingerprint of the colors that I dig.

posted by Christopher Walken in awesome, design | * | 13 comments 

comments

  1. Deron Bauman on November 11th, 2008 at 10:27 am

    you’re a genius!

  2. glass on November 11th, 2008 at 10:42 am

    I think there needs to be a category for awesome.
    This would be in it.

  3. Deron Bauman on November 11th, 2008 at 10:45 am

    done.

  4. Sheila Ryan on November 11th, 2008 at 10:50 am

    I am intrigued by the secret of the aqua-green pencil. What a tease.

  5. Mike Dresser on November 11th, 2008 at 11:50 am

    Awesome, indeed. I suppose a graph of pencil use would be this, upside down, with the negative space forming the graph.

  6. Sheila Ryan on November 11th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    Mike, man, you’re messing with my head.

  7. Raynor on November 11th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    regarding aqua-green: long story short: in my youth i ate some rancid easter candy of the same hue…

  8. Sheila Ryan on November 11th, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    Oh, my. I am so very sorry. One of those horrid little confectionary eggs, perhaps. Or . . . but no. Enough. Enough.

  9. Sheila Ryan on November 11th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    Twitter aqua.

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  11. Cooper Renner on November 11th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    I’m astonished at owning a pencil set since 1992. Bravo.

  12. India on November 12th, 2008 at 12:12 am

    Cooper, I’m quite sure I’ve got pencil sets older than that. It aids their longevity immensely if you can’t find them . . .

  13. Raynor on November 12th, 2008 at 8:44 pm

    just came across another natural graph. this one is a pie chart—literally.

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