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bluecalm on Dec 27, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learning Curves for Different Programming Language...

Can you share what did you use to make those beautiful graphs ? I really like the fuzzy axis lines.

douglasfshearer on Dec 27, 2014 | [–]

The author is using the Matplotlib Python library. [1]

Similar style charts to that used by Randall Munroe in XKCD.

See also this D3 style for producing similar charts by Dan Foreman-Mackey. [2]

[1] http://matplotlib.org/xkcd/examples/showcase/xkcd.html

[2] http://dan.iel.fm/xkcd/

defenestration on Dec 27, 2014 | [–]

I found this generator in the repo: https://github.com/Dobiasd/articles/blob/master/programming_...

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