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by stared 2671 days ago
"Why xkcd-style graphs are important" (2014) https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/why_xkcd_style_graph... provides a rationale for such plots.
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a_square_peg 2671 days ago
Funny 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/dis...

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