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Product Spotfire
Categories Visualization
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Created on May 30, 2016

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Violin Plot

Violin Plots are an alternative to box plots.  In addition to the distribution summary statistics (median quartiles, etc) visualized with a boxplot, vilin plots also display the probability density distribution.  See references below for details and images:

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

http://www.cerebralmastication.com/2009/02/box-plot-vs-violin-plot-in-r/ 

http://eamoncaddigan.net/dataviz/r/psych/2015/09/26/violin-plots/

Implemented in 14.6
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Oct 20, 2025

    With Spotfire 14.6 LTS, you can now display violin plots in box plots to reveal full probability density distribution (via KDE) around each box to surface skewness, multimodality, and hidden variation not visible with quartiles or medians. Learn more about what’s new in Spotfire 14.6 LTS…

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