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What is going on with these graphics?

• rtkwe 12y ago
  It's an XKCD styled graph by the looks of it. There are a couple generators out there that take data and make the hand drawn looking graphs. e.g http://xkcdgraphs.com/ http://xkcdgraphs.com/
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  • jff 12y ago
    And they look fucking awful.
    • flopto 12y ago
      They're supposed to look hastily-made to reflect the imprecision in the estimates. https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/why_xkcd_style_graphs_are_important.html https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/why_xkcd_style_graph...
      • desdiv 12y ago
        I love the general idea of comic-style graphs, but this particular implementation of it does indeed look "fucking awful" in my opinion. The graph itself is fine, but the axis is made of these faux wavy line that eerily repeats itself.
        • userbinator 12y ago
          The graph itself is fine, but the axis is made of these faux wavy line that eerily repeats itself. I see the same things in fonts that are supposed to look "hand-drawn", and CG renders of realistic scenes - it looks "imperfect" but the way the "imperfection" is itself perfect is what stands out. A little randomness goes a long way to avoiding that.
      • bsder 12y ago
        Except that there really isn't imprecision in the estimates. The numbers are really quite precise and the confidence interval is actually very good. Far better than an XKCD style should be used for. I use XKCD stuff for WAG's, not well-supported data.
  • simonster 12y ago
    Also, matplotlib, the most commonly-used Python plotting package, can generate xkcd-ized plots with a single additional command (see http://matplotlib.org/xkcd/examples/showcase/xkcd.html http://matplotlib.org/xkcd/examples/showcase/xkcd.html).