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    "<div class=\"contentcontainer med left\" style=\"margin-left: -50px;\">\n",
    "<dl class=\"dl-horizontal\">\n",
    "  <dt>Title</dt> <dd> Violin Element</dd>\n",
    "  <dt>Dependencies</dt> <dd>Plotly</dd>\n",
    "  <dt>Backends</dt> <dd><a href='./Violin.ipynb'>Bokeh</a></dd> <dd><a href='../matplotlib/Violin.ipynb'>Matplotlib</a></dd> <dd><a href='../plotly/Violin.ipynb'>Plotly</a></dd>\n",
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    "</div>"
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   "source": [
    "import numpy as np\n",
    "import holoviews as hv\n",
    "hv.extension('plotly')"
   ]
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   "source": [
    "A ``Violin`` element is used to visualise the distribution of a dataset by displaying its probability density. It is very similar to the ``BoxWhisker`` element but provides a more faithful representation even for bi- or multimodal data. The probability density is shown by the area akin to a vertical and mirrored ``Distribution`` element.  The thick black bar in the centre represents the interquartile range, the thin black line extended from it represents the 95% confidence intervals, and the white dot is the median.\n",
    "\n",
    "The data of a ``Violin`` Element may have any number of key dimensions representing the grouping of the value dimension and a single value dimensions representing the distribution of values within each group. See the [Tabular Datasets](../../../user_guide/08-Tabular_Datasets.ipynb) user guide for supported data formats, which include arrays, pandas dataframes and dictionaries of arrays.\n",
    "\n",
    "In the simplest case a ``Violin`` can be used to display a single distribution of values, such as a NumPy array of normally distributed values:"
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   "source": [
    "np.random.seed(37)\n",
    "violin = hv.Violin(np.random.randn(100), vdims='Value')\n",
    "violin"
   ]
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   "source": [
    "The ``Violin`` element is particularly useful to compare multiple distribution across different categories. As a simple example we can create a dataset of values with randomly assigned Group and Category values and compare the distributions."
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   "source": [
    "groups = [chr(65+g) for g in np.random.randint(0, 3, 200)]\n",
    "violin = hv.Violin((groups, np.random.randint(0, 5, 200), np.random.randn(200)),\n",
    "                   ['Group', 'Category'], 'Value')\n",
    "\n",
    "violin.opts(height=400, width=600)"
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   "source": [
    "For full documentation and the available style and plot options, use ``hv.help(hv.Violin).``"
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