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Data Stories: Coloring with Crayons

Crayola’s history, teaching kids to draw data visualizations, and an inadvertent usage chart.

By Upside Staff
March 16, 2022

Pick a Color

The Crayola company has introduced and discontinued many crayon colors over the years, as illustrated in this interactive Tableau workbook.

Coloring in the Lines

In this article from the Journal of the Data Visualization Society, data scientist Gulrez Khan explains how he teaches his kids to draw simple data visualizations.

Chosen Colors

This picture shows reality mimicking a chart; the height of each crayon shows how often it is used.

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