Making quick charts in mysql takes advantage of the visual math cores in our brains. Using the rpad function allows us to do so in the mysql shell, e..g. 

mysql> select value, rpad('', count(*), '#') from mail1_161 
where oid = '.1.3.6.1.4.1.9600.1.1.5.1.5.1.48' and value > 0 
group by value order by value desc;
	+-------+-------------------------+
	| value | rpad('', count(*), '#') |
	+-------+-------------------------+
	|    27 | ##                      |
	|    24 | #                       |
	|    22 | #                       |
	|    20 | ##                      |
	|    16 | #                       |
	|    15 | #                       |
	|    14 | #                       |
	|    13 | ##                      |
	|    12 | #                       |
	|    11 | #                       |
	|    10 | ##                      |
	|     9 | ###                     |
	|     8 | #                       |
	|     7 | ##                      |
	|     6 | ###                     |
	|     5 | ##                      |
	|     4 | #                       |
	|     2 | ####                    |
	|     1 | ######################  |
	+-------+-------------------------+
Have you seen "use native architecture" ? It was one of the more influential posts I've read at overcoming bias, and seems to dovetail nicely with your intro.
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/08/use-the-native.html Looks like your software aggressively prunes bad tags :( .
Absolutely. The native-architecture blog post needs a link to a list of optimized tasks in our brains. Anyone know of such a list? -- Patrick