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TeMPOraL on March 19, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lies, Damned Lies, and Averages: Perc50, Perc95 Ex...

> Of course graphing percentiles over time is much easier because they just represent a single value.

Ridgeline plots (joyplots) are severely underutilized.

mncharity on March 19, 2020 | [–]

R https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggridges/vignettes/i... ; d3 https://observablehq.com/@d3/ridgeline-plot ; py https://github.com/sbebo/joypy .

hinkley on March 20, 2020 | | [–]

There are also violin plots, which are like a cross between a box plot and a ridgeline plot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_plot

kasey_junk on March 19, 2020 | [–]

I generally love joyplots but haven’t seen a great use of them showing latency distribution over time.

Do you know of any examples?

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