humor
10 posts
I’m just gonna put this right here, from @_daviant: “Another day another stupid Excel chart”. Tags: Excel, humor
xkcd crossed a rough age distribution of people becoming grandparents with people named “Chad” and “Jason” to highlight the dawn of a new era. The time is now. Tags: age, humor, names, xkcd
From @haru_cchii on the Twitter: Local German Gets Bored And Tries To Name All American States i think i did pretty well Seems right to me. Tags: America, humor
Sometimes illustrating scientific findings is a challenge. Sometimes the illustrations are published anyways, because there are no more options. Sometimes those illustrations end up on a Twitter feed called Science Diagrams that Look Like Shitposts. Tags: humor, science
From Kim Warp for The New Yorker. Ha. Ha. It’s funny because it’s true. It reminds me of Amanda Cox’s dress size graphic for the NYT. [Thanks, Mike] Tags: humor, New Yorker, weight
From Tom Fishburne, the Marketoonist. Maybe a dashboard isn’t the answer you’re looking for. Tags: humor, KPI, Marketoonist
Add a book to the humorous-charts-documenting-the-everyday genre. Am I Overthinking This? by Michelle Rial charts the everyday. I like how Rial uses everyday objects to show everyday data informally. [Amazon link] Tags: book, humor
In the biggest crossover event of the century, Tom Lum used the Wikipedia API to chart the number of views for every reference in Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire. Yes. [via @waxpancake] Tags: Billy Joel, humor, Wikipedia