How to Create a Violin Plot

This article describes how to create a violin plot from one or more numeric variables. Whereas boxplots show key statistics for your data's distribution (i.e. Average, quartiles, outliers), a violin plot shows the density of all values and allows you to see a more detailed shape of your distribution. You will end up with a plot like this:

Requirements

You will need one or more Numeric format variables in your data, either in a loaded data set or displayed numeric data in a table.

Method

1. From the toolbar, go to Visualization > Distributions > Violin from the toolbar.
2. Click on the page to place the violin visualization.
3. From the object inspector, under Data > Data Source > Variables, select your numeric variable(s).
4. Click Calculate and/or ensure Calculate automatically is checked.

Selecting more than one numeric variable or inputting a variable in Data Source > Groups will generate a Grouped Violin Plot.

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How to Create a Grouped Violin Plot