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@guidocioni
guidocioni
opened on Jan 25, 2024

I'm trying to understand whether I can reproduce a plot that I made in matplotlib also in plotly. The plot is a ridgeline-like plot but instead of plotting KDEs I'm just representing the evolution of snow depth at a certain station over the winter (for different seasons).

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So, the plot has basically the same logic of a ridgeline plot but instead of computing and plotting a KDE I only have to plot the timeseries.

The way I achieved this in matplotlib was to just use subplots and plot in every axis a simple line plot with filled area. I then removed any background and reduced the vertical padding so that the different plots overlap a little bit. All the axes share the same xrange and yrange.

Is this library flexible enough to allow something like that or is that not possible at all? Are you using the violin plot method under the hood?

Thanks :)

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  1. tpvasconcelos commented on Jan 25, 2024

    @tpvasconcelos
    tpvasconcelos
    on Jan 25, 2024
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    Hi @guidocioni ! Nice example! 👍

    And yes, you can currently do this with the library!

    You need to use the (perhaps not very intuitively named) densities parameter. For your use case, you should pass it in a shallow format.

    Here's a very basic example:

    from ridgeplot import ridgeplot

fig = ridgeplot(
    densities=[
        [(0, 0), (1, 1), (2, 0)], # 2021-2022
        [(1, 0), (2, 1), (3, 0)], # 2022-2023
        [(2, 0), (3, 1), (4, 0)], # 2023-2024
    ],
    labels=["2021-2022", "2022-2023", "2023-2024"],
)
fig.show()
    image

  2. guidocioni commented on Jan 25, 2024

    @guidocioni
    guidocioni
    on Jan 25, 2024
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    I'm closing for now, will reopen if I find any issue while doing this :)

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    closed this as completedon Jan 25, 2024
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  6. tpvasconcelos
    converted this issue into a discussion #214 on Oct 8, 2024
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