From Topatco, this delightful, XKCD-esque "Grapathy" shirt, illustrating inflection point for comedy graphs.
Grapathy Shirt
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Sick of graphs tee-shirt
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How can you be tired of graphs!? I'm just tired stupid graphs that doesn't really make any sense at all. Like this one.
Also: that's not an inflection point, it's a maximum. The graph to which the function in this graph is the derivative would have an inflection point at that particular point on the "sick of graphs"-axis
Somewhere, Jessica Hagy is crying... and she doesn't know why.
Inflection points are in the middle of S-curves
http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf
(warning: contains the ``f'' word.)
Not to be too wet a blanket here, but don't good graph-jokes, i.e. xkcd's, usually... make sense? This graph says that as you gets sicker of graphs, your "who cares" goes up, and then (still moving towards the right), as you get even sicker of graphs, your "who cares" goes back down? What?
Complain I'm over-analyzing if you want. But usually the good think about these gags is they allow themselves to be analyzed a little.
The fact that the graph isn't properly readable is part of the joke, endymion.
I hate anti-graph propaganda. It always seems to me like that snide kid in my English Comp class, mocking something for its sheer informativeness. Like, "thinking is lame."
Also, it is topatoco, good people making decent schwag.
Still the best -
http://boingboing.net/2006/11/02/hilarious-piechartvi.html
i'm pretty sure john campbell (of "pictures for sad children") made this in response to all the nonstop, madcap economic news reports of the last year. in that context, it's a sentiment i agree with.
also probable: this graph is intended to not make sense. part of the joke, maybe.
The graph perhaps makes more sense in the context of the comic whence it came: http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=263
maxoid is correct. It's not supposed to make sense as a graph. He tired of graphs and doesn't care about them any more, so he doesn't care whether or not it can be analyzed.
Also, calling Pictures for Sad Children "XKCD-esque" is really gross.
Finally, a truly ironic situation!
You see, his t-shirt can be either interpreted as a play on the word empathy or apathy. If you interpret it as empathy, it doesn't make much sense. If you see it as charting an increasingly apathetic response... well, you'll tell the presenter to "Shut Up" shortly before you give up caring and tune out. To me, the chart appears to make perfect sense. :)
I got excited for a moment when I misread the title and graph together as "I'm sick of graphic t-shirts" thinking it was a jokesy play on a graphic t-shirt proclaiming about hating graphic t-shirts...oh you get. And let's face it, I could never really hate graphic t-shirts.
http://abstrusegoose.com/191
correction: upon re-reading the original comic (thanks, anonymous!), i can tell you that it is a response to the media hype about swine flu, not the media hype about the economy. works either way, though.
the concept of "anti-graph propaganda" gives me the giggles, for what it's worth.
Graph humor's easy. That's why so many lazy, exploitative "nerdy" strips do it.
C'mon, you know you want an Excel hat. Who'll make this logical fashion physical?
This reminds me of the "HURR, DURR, HURRDURR" graph that's been floating around 4chan (mostly as a reference to the video game console wars) for about 2 years.
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t185/dethtoll/hurr-durr-hurrdurr-graph.png