Ridge Plots with Python’s Seaborn

A fascinating way of visualizing multiple distributions

Thiago Carvalho
Python in Plain English
5 min readAug 9, 2021

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This visualization is composed of line charts stacked vertically with slightly overlapping lines that share the same x-axis.

Ridge plot — Image by the author

Those overlaps reduce the whitespace, many times at the cost of precision, and create a compact chart that’s relatively uncommon and great for catching the viewer's…

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