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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Mar 24.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2019 Oct 28;140(18):1506–1518. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.037777

Table 3:

Free resources to create figures for small datasets

Figure Program Resource
Static or interactive dot plots, box plots & violin plots Web-based tool; features for showing subgroups & clusters of non-independent data * http://statistika.mfub.bg.ac.rs/interactive-dotplot/ 22
Dot plots, box plots & violin plots Web-based tool (SHINY app) https://huygens.science.uva.nl/PlotsOfData/ 27
Combination of dot plots, box plots and kernel density plots Tutorial for R, Python, Matlab – this visualization is only appropriate for large datasets https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/4-63/v1 30
Dot plots Excel templates, GraphPad PRISM instructions Supplemental files of Weissgerber et al., 2015 1
SPSS code https://www.ctspedia.org/wiki/pub/CTSpedia/TemplateTesting/Dotplot_SPSS.pdf 23
R code Blog post by Jamie Ashander 25
Blog post by Ben Marwick 26
Box plots Web-based tool (for independent or clustered /grouped data; SHINY app) * https://lancs.shinyapps.io/ToxBox 28
Web-based tool (for independent data; SHINY app) http://boxplot.tyerslab.com/ 15
R code Blog post by Jamie Ashander 25
Violin plots Web-based tool (for independent data; SHINY app) https://interactive-graphics.shinyapps.io/violin/ 24
Paired data: Spaghetti plots & dot plots of change scores Excel templates, GraphPad PRISM instructions Supplemental files of Weissgerber et al., 2015 1
R code Blog post by Jamie Ashander 25
Blog post by Ben Marwick 26
Interactive line graphs Web-based tool; features for showing lines for any individual, focusing on groups or time points of interest, viewing change scores for any two conditions http://statistika.mfub.bg.ac.rs/interactive-graph/ 29
Various types of graphs Excel, R code, Stata http://faculty.washington.edu/kenrice/heartgraphs 31
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Grouped or clustered data refers to measurements performed in subjects, specimens or samples that are related to each other. This might include replicates, or animals from the same litter.