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zissou on April 2, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why xkcd-style graphs are important

I've done a Google Ngrams API that generates plots in XKCD style here:

https://github.com/econpy/google-ngrams

and a webapp version with slightly more advanced XKCD tweaks here:

http://xkcd.culturomics.org

Everything starts with matplotlibs xkcd lib but has been tweaked to produce plots based on the output of the Google Ngram Viewer.

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