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Here's another one I find interesting.

Which led to this plot to try and show some correlations and trends...paints an interesting picture. What I see is the consistent rise in totals, materials and patterns when the company started out...then things peaked in 2011-2012 when they were making more knives than ever, at that point, and the most patterns and materials available that they would ever offer again. Moving forward, I think they realized they couldn't proceed at that rate and still have the quality they were looking for so they started offering fewer patterns and fewer materials but higher quantities. And that trend continued until now where it looks like they found their "sweet spot" of how many patterns to offer each year (and maybe how many they produce each year too) but they are still reducing the number of materials offerred at a decent rate.


Which led to this plot to try and show some correlations and trends...paints an interesting picture. What I see is the consistent rise in totals, materials and patterns when the company started out...then things peaked in 2011-2012 when they were making more knives than ever, at that point, and the most patterns and materials available that they would ever offer again. Moving forward, I think they realized they couldn't proceed at that rate and still have the quality they were looking for so they started offering fewer patterns and fewer materials but higher quantities. And that trend continued until now where it looks like they found their "sweet spot" of how many patterns to offer each year (and maybe how many they produce each year too) but they are still reducing the number of materials offerred at a decent rate.
