A violin plot is a method of plotting numeric data. It is a box plot with a rotated kernel density plot on each side.
A violin plot is a method of plotting numeric data. It is a box plot with a rotated kernel density plot on each side.
Questions tagged [violin-plot]
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Split violin plot with ggplot2
I'd like to create a split violin density plot using ggplot, like the fourth example on this page of the seaborn documentation.
Here is some data:
set.seed(20160229)
my_data = data.frame(
y=c(rnorm(1000), rnorm(1000, 0.5), rnorm(1000, 1),…
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Changing the color of matplotlib's violin plots
Is there a way to change the color of the violin plots in matplotlib?
The default color is this "brownish" color, which is not too bad, but I'd like to color e.g., the first 3 violins differently to highlight them. I don't find any parameter in the…
user2489252
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Align violin plots with dodged box plots
I have this data frame
set.seed(1234)
x <- rnorm(80, 5, 1)
df <- data.frame(groups = c(rep("group1",20),
rep("group2",20),
rep("group3",20),
rep("group4",20)),
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How to better fit seaborn violinplots
The following code gives me a very nice violinplot (and boxplot within).
import numpy as np
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
foo = np.random.rand(100)
sns.violinplot(foo)
plt.boxplot(foo)
plt.show()
So far so good. However,…
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Process pandas dataframe into a violinplot
I have data I'm reading from an Excel spreadsheet. The data has a number of observations for each of six scenarios, S1 to S6. When I read in the data to my dataframe df, it looks as follows:
Scenario LMP
0 S1 -21.454544
1 …
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Seaborn violinplot transparency
I would like to have increasingly transparent violins in a seaborn.violinplot. I tried the following:
import seaborn as sns
tips = sns.load_dataset("tips")
ax = sns.violinplot(x="day", y="total_bill", data=tips, color='r', alpha=[0.8, 0.6, 0.4,…
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Multiple Columns for HUE parameter in Seaborn violinplot
I am working with tips data set, and here is the head of data set.
total_bill tip sex smoker day time size
0 16.99 1.01 Female No Sun Dinner 2
1 10.34 1.66 Male No Sun Dinner 3
2 21.01 3.50 Male No Sun…
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Quartiles line properties in seaborn violinplot
trying to figure out how to modify the line properties (color, thickness, style etc) of the quartiles in a seaborn violinplot.
Example code from their website:
import seaborn as sns
sns.set(style="whitegrid")
tips = sns.load_dataset("tips")
ax =…
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Differing quantiles: Boxplot vs. Violinplot
require(ggplot2)
require(cowplot)
d = iris
ggplot2::ggplot(d, aes(factor(0), Sepal.Length)) +
geom_violin(fill="black", alpha=0.2, draw_quantiles = c(0.25, 0.5, 0.75)
, colour = "red", size = 1.5) +
stat_boxplot(geom…
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Violin Plot troubles in Python on log scale
My violin plots are showing weird formats when using a log scale on my plots. I've tried using matplotlib and seaborn and I get very similar results.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
data = [[1e-05, 0.00102, 0.00498, 0.09154,…
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seaborn violinplot out of valid range
I am using seaborn to create violin plots. Right now I am creating violin plots out of proportion values (so all values are between 0 and 1), but the resulting violin plot is quite off. Its bottom ranges into negative values and its top ranges into…
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ggplot2: How to get dots to group with violin plots?
I would like to plot violin plots where x axis is exon however I want to group the plots. This works if its just violins however when I add in the jitters for some reason its not responding the correct aes and is plotting on its own? Here is a…
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How to plot two violin plot series on the same graph using seaborn?
Looking at the documentation about violon plots with seaborn, I would like to know how to plot two series of violin plots on the same axis (point 1) and that they are comparable (point 2).
About point 1, I would like to reproduce that plot for each…
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Violin plot for positive values with python
I find violin plots very informative and useful, I use python library 'seaborn'.
However, when applied to positive values, they nearly always show negative values at the lower end. I find this really misleading, especially when working with…
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Plot only one side/half of the violin plot
I would like to have only one half of violin plots (similar to the plots created by stat_density_ridges from ggridges). A MWE
library(ggplot2)
dframe = data.frame(val = c(), group = c())
for(i in 1:5){
offset = i - 3
dframe = rbind(dframe,
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