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By no means to I want to sound like a party-pooper (truly, I love this stuff and plan to use it), but this feels like this is the "Comic Sans" of graphing. In a
by tsumnia 10y ago
By no means to I want to sound like a party-pooper (truly, I love this stuff and plan to use it), but this feels like this is the "Comic Sans" of graphing. In an essence, we know better than to use it in a serious sense, but someone, somewhere might use it incorrectly, then suddenly, poof, everyone's XKCDing their graphs
- KKKKkkkk1 10y agoJust like Comic Sans, I'm not really sure there is an appropriate use for XKCD style outside of the actual XKCD comic and similar-style comics. It's a cliche that has no functional purpose.
- marcuskaz 10y agoWhy does everything need to have a functional purpose? Can't hacking be just for fun, playing around, and seeing what you can do?
- thisisdave 10y agoThe suggestion I've heard is that the xkcd style is a good way to signal "this is just an informal whiteboard sketch, not a highly-refined analysis". I think there's a place for that.
- gaur 10y agoLet's be honest: the people who are indiscriminately xkcding their plots were never making good-looking plots in the first place.