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IanCal on June 23, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: I've stopped using box plots (2021)

I find violin plots suggest far smoother results than actually exist so you need to be careful with the amount of data.

IshKebab on June 23, 2024 | [–]

I agree but so do box plots. I think probably the best thing is violin plots when there's lots of data and bee swarm plots when there isn't. But either are better than box plots.

karmakaze on June 23, 2024 | [–]

What about using rotated, symmetric histograms--like a quantized violin plot?

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