A recent reddit thread reminded us that you can generate a similar look for your own data (humorous or otherwise) in Python using Matplotlib. If you already have a plot generated with Matplotlib ...

But it does take a little more time to read. First, it is not a simple comparison of just two elements as you would find in a bar chart, or numbers over time as in a line graph. The scatterplot plots ...

Scatter plots—which use horizontal and vertical axes to plot data points and display how much one variable is affected by another—have long been employed by researchers in various fields ...