Purple and orange!
The survey we conducted last week as to what color scheme we should use on our chart showing the most complex set of data we track drew a sufficient number of responses to declare the colorblind, laptop screen, print and black-and-white photocopy-friendly choice of purple and orange the winner!
The funny thing is that we also correctly predicted the trajectory of stock prices for the week of 12 January 2015 through 16 January 2015, but we'll discuss why we were successful and what that means later this week.
In the meantime, lets have a flashback to 2011, when the color combination of purple and orange represented "fashion's coolest clash" and as recently as 2013, was considered by room designers to be "dramatically bold and seriously chic"!
But best of all, following the purple and orange path led us to Welder:
Labels: chaos, data visualization, SP 500
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