{"id":5081,"date":"2022-06-28T14:47:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:47:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:47:28","slug":"vertical-histograms-ftw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/28\/vertical-histograms-ftw\/","title":{"rendered":"Vertical histograms FTW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I might be alone in this, and I&#8217;m willing to die on this hill, but here it is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vertical histograms are better than all of these: violin plots, box plots, kernel density plots, beeswarm plots. <\/strong>(if you don&#8217;t know those terms, simply do a web search for them for examples) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just show me the naked distribution. Don&#8217;t try to mirror it around a y-axis, or smooth it, or any other nonsense. Just show me the naked histogram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This example is from <a href=\"https:\/\/jneurodevdisorders.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s11689-020-09329-y\">this paper<\/a> and Leah did an excellent job on the figures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-630x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5082\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-630x1024.png 630w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-185x300.png 185w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image.png 656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I might be alone in this, and I&#8217;m willing to die on this hill, but here it is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vertical histograms are better than all of these: violin plots, box plots, kernel density plots, beeswarm plots. <\/strong>(if you don&#8217;t know those terms, simply do a web search for them for examples) <\/p>\n<p>Just show me the naked distribution&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/28\/vertical-histograms-ftw\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}