BetterViolinPlots

Better violin plots for common scenarios.

This package allows for violin plots of any and all of:

• analytic distributions
• KDE estimates from samples
• box plots
• single or double sided violin plots

Packages like matplotlib or seaborn are limited in that they do not have all of these options.

Installation

After cloning, make sure the requirements are installed with

pip install -r requirements.txt

then do the actual install of this package by performing

python setup.py install

and run the tests

pytest

Please report any issues here.

To contribute to the development, there are a few more requirements found in environment.yml. To install, the environment, follow the directions on creating and environment, with

conda env create -f environment.yml

Followed by the installation instructions above.

Usage

Import the package or a single routine and use it with the appropriate kinds of data (either a scipy-like distribution or samples of points).

from bvp import analytic_violin

from scipy.stats import norm

# Five normal distributions
distributions = [norm() for _ in range(5)]

fig, ax = analytic_violin(distributions)