A 'Lucky Charms' Plot

I've been wanting to make a 'Lucky Charms' plot for years.

Here is one.

I've wanted to produce a plot with a `Lucky Charms' (@LuckyCharms) theme for years.

Now I just need to find a good way to put one in a scientific paper. pic.twitter.com/dHChWIkBTM

— Mason Porter (@masonporter) May 14, 2019

Matching Bar Graphs to Percentages

Good try, NBC2. Thank you for playing.

(Tip of the cap to Maria Satterwhite and at least one person who I can't remember.)

Code for Making XKCD-Style Plots in R

Because it had to be done. And now I need to find a good way to use this in one of my papers.

(Tip of the cap to Michael Ward.)

Some Awesome Spurious Correlations

Take a look at these awesome spurious correlations. I have seen a similar list before --- perhaps even the same one? --- and it's possible that I ever blogged about this list at some point (though, if so, I can't find the entry). However, these plots are fantastic, so go take a look at them.

Obviously, I really like the last one, though naturally I wonder if applied mathematics degrees were included. (Now where did I put that uranium...?) I am also amused to see an apparent peak in the revenue of arcades in 2008. I am really surprised that the peak is this recent. (The data only goes through 2009, but I am assuming that arcade revenues haven't gone back up.)

(Tip of the cap to Anna Iwaniec Hickerson.)

XKCDifying Plots in MATLAB

In case you were wondering (and I know you were), there is a script to "xkcdify" plots in MATLAB. Enjoy!

(Tip of the cap to Sang Hoon Lee.)

The 36 Plot Points

Georges Polti claimed that there are only 36 types of dramatic situations that a story can contain. This list makes me want to come up with a 37th. Any ideas?

(I found out about this, by the way, by reading my L5R rulebook.)