a natural bar graph

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. i have no explanation for the cluster of warm colors in the middle.
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.

UPDATE (1/30/2010): hello there kottke readers (i am one of you)! you may also get a charge out of my other data visualisation posts or my highlight reel of other curious dispatches—[disclaimer: it is also very possible that you could find them tremendously boooooring (extra o’s added for emphasis).] thanks for visiting me. we are friends now.