AI engineering glossary · NumPy pandas visualization

What is violin plot?

Violin plot: A chart that combines a box plot with a mirrored density curve, showing the full shape of a distribution for each group. Where the shape is wide, many values lie there. It reveals features such as two peaks that a box plot hides.

Level: intermediateTopic: NumPy pandas visualization

Violin plot: an example

Violin plots of exam scores for three coaching centres can show one centre's scores split into two clusters.

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