xkcd filter on matplotlib
This isn't the first time the streams have crossed between two of my favorite areas of interest, btw.**
I came across that delightful phrase in section eight of a wonderful article, "Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures." You should read this, for sure, if you ever have to make charts | graphs | plots. You should read it if you ever have to critically view this kind of work by others. You should read it if you're at all interested in clearer communication. You should read it. You should also check out some of the many fine links in the article, including (and how's this for a great name?) Kaiser Fung's Junk Charts.
I came across the link to the article in the Preface to a book I've just started reading. The author, Nicolas P. Rougier, has very generously made this book, Python & OpenGL for Scientific Visualization, freely available online.
(* Resists temptation to start typing You shoulds ... again *).
Admittedly, this is not gonna be primo beach reading for some of you. But all of the above is so in my wheelhouse that I just had to pass it along.
This concludes your my early Sunday*** morning geekout.
(h/t: PyCoder's Weekly for 2019-10-29)
* That you would be willing to say in polite company, I mean.
** You do know about import antigravity, right?
*** My weekend, these days, is Tuesday, Wednesday, and I work nights. The carpenters remodeling the apartment next door evidently do not share my schedule.
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