Closed cxhernandez closed 7 years ago
why is this called a joy plot
From ggjoy:
The name "joyplot" was proposed by Jenny Bryan on Twitter on April 24, 2017, in reference to the iconic cover art for Joy Division's album Unknown Pleasures.
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Not a fan of Joy, I see.
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Thoughts on this?
The idea is to have many features in the same plot over several states. @msultan thinks it's a little busy though.
Something like this could be might be more clearer? My fear is that people tend to interpret a single axis as representing the same variable.
Is this better?
done in #102
They're trendy and a good option for discrete time-series analysis of distributions. I imagine this would be nice to look at features evolving along a transition pathway.
Also fairly simple to implement: