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Re: the top 15 colors
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lugnet.color
Date: 
Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:48:20 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Dan Boger wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:00:55AM +0000, ondrew hartigan wrote:
> > the top 15
> > 
> > 
> >  1.)  white                  2477parts <--  I always thought red was #1
> >  2.)  black                  2406parts
> >  3.)  red                    2120parts
> >  4.)  yellow                 2073parts
> >  5.)  light grey             1617parts
> >  6.)  blue                   1512parts
> >  7.)  dark grey              1079parts
> >  8.)  green                   905parts
> >  9.)  brown                   668parts
> > 10.)  tan                     592parts
> > 11.)  medium stone grey       491parts <-- this is creeping up the list fast
> > 12.)  dark stone grey         438parts
> > 13.)  orange                  409parts
> > 14.)  trans white "clear"     302parts <--I didn't think it would make the list
> > 15.)  medium blue             232parts <-- I?m surprised by this one too.
> 
> Interesting that BL reports a different order than Peeron does:
> 
> 1       Black           143939
> 2       Gray            80050
> 3       White           71770
> 4       Red             67956
> 5       Yellow          52425
> 6       Blue            45521
> 7       DkGray          20404
> 8       Green           13672
> 9       Brown           8167
> 10      Tan             6925
> 11      MdStone         6332
> 12      Clear           5895
> 13      TrRed           4319
> 14      DkStone         4235
> 15      SandGreen       3897
> 
> I guess the two sites have a different collection of inventories to work
> off. I believe Peeron has a lot more older inventories (of sets that
> people don't often sell), which BL usually has the newer ones before
> Peeron gets them.
> 
> (from http://www.peeron.com/cgi-bin/invcgis/reports/mostcommon.cgi?type=Color&more=1&start=0)

Any chance that Peeron could reduce the duplicate/multiples out of those number
and show the 'unique parts' for each color ? That might be most revealing to
show which colors have had the greatest variety of parts produced.

Ray



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  Re: the top 15 colors
 
(...) I can't change Peeron, but I did do a query against the data, counting unique parts found for each color. Here are the heavy hitters: White 2326 Black 2145 Yellow 1910 Red 1877 Blue 1353 Gray 1313 DkGray 842 Green 795 Brown 499 MdStone 487 Tan (...) (22 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)

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  Re: the top 15 colors
 
(...) Interesting that BL reports a different order than Peeron does: 1 Black 143939 2 Gray 80050 3 White 71770 4 Red 67956 5 Yellow 52425 6 Blue 45521 7 DkGray 20404 8 Green 13672 9 Brown 8167 10 Tan 6925 11 MdStone 6332 12 Clear 5895 13 TrRed 4319 (...) (22 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)

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