# Raincloud Plots

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/raincloud-plots/22146>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Created:** [March 21, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/raincloud-plots/22146 "2019-03-21T14:19:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![johnh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnh/32/3615_2.png) [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/raincloud-plots/22146/1 "2019-03-21T14:19:27Z")

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> **[Raincloud plots: a multi-platform tool for robust data visualization](https://peerj.com/preprints/27137/)**
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> Across scientific disciplines, there is a rapidly growing recognition of the need for more statistically robust, transparent approaches to data visualization. Complimentary to this, many scientists have realized the need for plotting tools that...

> **[GitHub - RainCloudPlots/RainCloudPlots: Code and tutorials to visualise your...](https://github.com/RainCloudPlots/RainCloudPlots)**
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> Code and tutorials to visualise your data that is both beautiful \*and\* statistically valid - GitHub - RainCloudPlots/RainCloudPlots: Code and tutorials to visualise your data that is both beautiful...

Looks interesting! I guess it will be easy enough to use the Python code.

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/raincloud-plots/22146/2 "2019-03-21T14:31:22Z")

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This looks like a KDE with jittered sample points on the axis. What am I missing?

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**Author:** ![mkborregaard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkborregaard/32/556_2.png) [@mkborregaard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkborregaard)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2019, 11:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/raincloud-plots/22146/3 "2019-03-22T11:31:14Z")

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There’s also a boxplot 😉  
It’d be a piece of cake to write that as a recipe for StatsPlots, if someone wants this.