Spurious lines on violin plot

[yt87]

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ALL software version info

python                    3.11.8          hab00c5b_0_cpython    conda-forge
hvplot                    0.9.2              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
holoviews                 1.18.3             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
bokeh                     3.3.4              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge

Description of expected behavior and the observed behavior

The violin plot occasionally produces spurious lines. The same data plotted with box is OK.

Complete, minimal, self-contained example code that reproduces the issue

Data file:
bar.csv

This is a stripped down large data file, with the minimal number of items I was able to reproduce this behaviour.

# code goes here between backticks
import pandas as pd
import hvplot.pandas
df = pd.read_csv('/tmp/bar.csv')
df.hvplot.violin(by='month')
df.hvplot.box(by='month')

Stack traceback and/or browser JavaScript console output

Screenshots or screencasts of the bug in action

• I may be interested in making a pull request to address this

[Hoxbro]

This seems to happen because Jun only has 0 as the a-value.

[yt87]

I doubt this is caused by only 0 data values. Here is a plot with full dataset.

There are several months with no ice, but no spurious lines show up. Also, the plot in my previous message looks fine when done with the matplotlib extension. Which suggest the bug might be in holoviews/plotting/bokeh/stats.py

[Hoxbro]

You are right. If I reduce your data to the following, I get the line.

import pandas as pd
import hvplot.pandas
import holoviews as hv
from io import StringIO

data = """
time,A,month
2009-06-01,0.0,Jun
2009-07-01,0.88,Jul
2009-07-02,0.96,Jul
2009-07-03,1.0,Jul
2009-07-04,0.95,Jul
2009-07-05,0.93,Jul
2008-07-01,0.47,Jul
2008-07-02,0.94,Jul
2008-07-03,0.93,Jul
2008-07-04,0.89,Jul
2008-07-05,0.95,Jul
2008-07-06,0.94,Jul
2008-07-07,0.91,Jul
2008-07-08,0.96,Jul
2008-07-09,0.90,Jul
2008-07-10,0.96,Jul
2008-07-11,0.9,Jul
2008-07-12,0.96,Jul
2008-07-13,0.94,Jul
2008-07-14,0.9,Jul
2008-07-15,0.95,Jul
2008-07-16,0.94,Jul
2008-07-17,0.89,Jul
2008-07-18,0.89,Jul
2008-07-19,0.87,Jul
2008-07-20,0.9,Jul
2008-07-21,0.90,Jul
2008-07-23,0.90,Jul
2008-07-24,0.93,Jul
2008-07-25,0.96,Jul
2008-07-26,1.0,Jul
2008-07-27,0.94,Jul
2008-07-28,0.88,Jul
2008-07-29,0.95,Jul
2008-07-31,0.98,Jul
"""

sio = StringIO(data.strip())
sio.seek(0)
df = pd.read_csv(sio)
df.hvplot.violin(by="month")

But if I remove one line from Jul, the line will not show up... I have absolutely no idea why this is happening...

plots = []
lines = data.strip().split("\n")
for i in range(2, len(lines)):
    d = "\n".join([l for idx, l in enumerate(lines) if i != idx])
    sio = StringIO(d)
    sio.seek(0)
    df = pd.read_csv(sio)
    plots.append(df.hvplot.violin(by="month", label=lines[i]))

hv.Layout(plots).cols(2).opts(shared_axes=False)

[Hoxbro]

This is a WebGL problem. Can you try disabling hv.renderer("bokeh").webgl = False.

[yt87]

Thanks, that worked.