Ridgeline plot

{{Short description|Data graphic}} A '''ridgeline plot''' (also known as a '''joyplot'''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilke |first=Claus O. |date=2017-09-15 |title=Goodbye joyplots |url=https://clauswilke.com/blog/2017/09/15/goodbye-joyplots/ |access-date=2024-06-28 |website=Claus O. Wilke |language=en-us}}</ref><ref group="note">The name Joyplot is derived from the use of a Ridgeline plot of the intensity of pulses from a pulsar on the front of Joy Division's album ''Unknown Pleasures''.</ref>) is a series of line plots that are combined by vertical stacking to allow the easy visualization of changes through space or time. The plots are often overlapped slightly to allow the changes to be more clearly contrasted.<ref>Wilke, C. O.(2019). ''Fundamentals of data visualization: a primer on making informative and compelling figures''. O'Reilly Media.(See pages, 39, 43 88-91, 196)</ref><ref>https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggridges/vignettes/introduction.html#:~:text=Ridgeline%20plots%20are%20partially%20overlapping,distributions%20over%20time%20or%20space.</ref><ref>Naqvi, S.A.A., 2022. JOYPLOT: Stata module to produce joyplots or ridgeline plots. </ref><ref>https://r-graph-gallery.com/294-basic-ridgeline-plot.html</ref> thumb|An example of a ridgeline plot showing the distributions of wages for a sample of firms over a series of years from a panel data set

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