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Creating Ridgeline Plots with ggplot2

This document discusses different ways to visualize the distribution of a numeric variable across categories using a ridgeline plot. It shows: 1) A basic ridgeline plot of diamond price by quality using the ggridges library, with color used to distinguish the quality categories. 2) An alternative visualization using stat="binline" that draws the distributions as histograms for each category. 3) A ridgeline plot where color is determined by the numeric variable (temperature) rather than the category, to show differences in the underlying values.

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Creating Ridgeline Plots with ggplot2

This document discusses different ways to visualize the distribution of a numeric variable across categories using a ridgeline plot. It shows: 1) A basic ridgeline plot of diamond price by quality using the ggridges library, with color used to distinguish the quality categories. 2) An alternative visualization using stat="binline" that draws the distributions as histograms for each category. 3) A ridgeline plot where color is determined by the numeric variable (temperature) rather than the category, to show differences in the underlying values.

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Basic ridgeline plot

A Ridgelineplot (formerly called Joyplot) allows to study the distribution of a numeric variable for several groups. In
this example, we check the distribution of diamond prices according to their quality.
This graph is made using the ggridges library, which is a ggplot2 extension and thus respect the syntax of the
grammar of graphic. We specify the price column for the X axis and the cut column for the Y axis.
Adding fill=cut allows to use one colour per category and display them as separate groups.

# library
library(ggridges)
library(ggplot2)

# Diamonds dataset is provided by R natively


#head(diamonds)

# basic example
ggplot(diamonds, aes(x = price, y = cut, fill = cut)) +
geom_density_ridges() +
theme_ridges() +
theme([Link] = "none")
Shape Variation

It is possible to represent the density with different aspects. For instance, using stat="binline" makes a histogram
like shape to represent each distribution.
# library
library(ggridges)
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(forcats)

# Load dataset from github


data <- [Link]("[Link] header=TRUE,
sep=",")
data <- data %>%
gather(key="text", value="value") %>%
mutate(text = gsub("\\.", " ",text)) %>%
mutate(value = round([Link](value),0)) %>%
filter(text %in% c("Almost Certainly","Very Good Chance","We Believe","Likely","About Even", "Little Chance",
"Chances Are Slight", "Almost No Chance"))

# Plot
data %>%
mutate(text = fct_reorder(text, value)) %>%
ggplot( aes(y=text, x=value, fill=text)) +
geom_density_ridges(alpha=0.6, stat="binline", bins=20) +
theme_ridges() +
theme(
[Link]="none",
[Link] = unit(0.1, "lines"),
[Link].x = element_text(size = 8)
)+
xlab("") +
ylab("Assigned Probability (%)")
Color relative to numeric value

It is possible to set color depending on the numeric variable instead of the categoric one. (code from the ridgeline R
package by Claus O. Wilke )
# library
library(ggridges)
library(ggplot2)
library(viridis)
library(hrbrthemes)

# Plot
ggplot(lincoln_weather, aes(x = `Mean Temperature [F]`, y = `Month`, fill = ..x..)) +
geom_density_ridges_gradient(scale = 3, rel_min_height = 0.01) +
scale_fill_viridis(name = "Temp. [F]", option = "C") +
labs(title = 'Temperatures in Lincoln NE in 2016') +
theme_ipsum() +
theme(
[Link]="none",
[Link] = unit(0.1, "lines"),
[Link].x = element_text(size = 8)
)

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