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I'll take a plain histogram/kde plot every day of the week over those damn violin plots. I think box plots are quite usefull as they are easy to read but only i
by frodo8sam 2y ago
I'll take a plain histogram/kde plot every day of the week over those damn violin plots. I think box plots are quite usefull as they are easy to read but only if you trust the author has actually looked at the histogram. And you can typically not trust the author to have done that.
- mkl 2y agoViolin plots essentially are KDE plots, but you can put multiple of them on the same axes to compare groups.
- klysm 2y agoA violin plot is literally just a KDE sideways.
- seanhunter 2y agoIt also has a box plot tacked on because "why not"?
- klysm 2y agoSometimes it’s useful if the mean/median has meaning
- medstrom 2y agoPerhaps you'd find the half-violin plot more readable? Seems there's a whole world of all-in-one "raincloud plots" that integrates them, like the lower infographic here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Z3tt/TidyTuesday/main/plots/2020_31/2020_31_PalmerPenguins.png https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Z3tt/TidyTuesday/main/plot... You can even make 'em show histograms: https://miro.medium.com/v2/1*J3Q4JKXa9WwJHtNaXRu-kQ.jpeg https://miro.medium.com/v2/1*J3Q4JKXa9WwJHtNaXRu-kQ.jpeg
- catlifeonmars 2y agoFor the latter, it looks like the histogram is probably sufficient. The violin plot just adds extra visual noise.