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"Why xkcd-style graphs are important" (2014) https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/why_xkcd_style_graphs_are_important.html https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog
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"Why xkcd-style graphs are important" (2014) https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/why_xkcd_style_graphs_are_important.html https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/why_xkcd_style_graph... provides a rationale for such plots.
- a_square_peg 8y agoFunny enough, I posted an animated plot on Reddit generated using the Matplotlib xkcd style a couple of months ago and the top comments were about the choice of font - for people not familiar with the xkcd comic, this seemed to be distraction point. https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/9wcsm5/distribution_of_temperature_change_since_1950_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/9wcsm5/dis...