I spend a lot of time comparing distributions. There’s lots of different ways to visualize these comparisons, I’m not sure what is the most effective & intuitive way to indicate their overlap.
Distributions
![](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7159/6812863339_b757c2f54b_o.png)
Boxplot
![](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6812863299_a99d0ea040_o.png)
Violinplot
![](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6812863493_35aec6434d_o.png)
Beanplot
![](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7154/6812863275_7d96bebf1f_o.png)
ROC Curve
![](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7032/6812863387_fffa882deb_o.png)
These images in gallery format with examples from two other data sources as well (click on image to zoom into gallery).
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