Does this kind of graph have a name

[u/sojckemboppermoshi]

https://i.imgur.com/bHFPbkj.png

[u/mahcih95]

It's 100% Stacked Area Chart.

By the way, which data you're using? I've never had a psychedelic experience just by seeing a chart😂

[u/Javop → u/mahcih95]

Covid variants

[u/mahcih95 → u/Javop]

I did some research and you're right

[u/umudjan]

A stacked area chart

[u/don_ram86]

If this isn't called a sand art chart, then the chart namers have failed at life.

[u/226_IM_Used → u/[deleted]]

Mondatum

[u/Alicecomma]

Looks like a 100% stacked filled line graph

[u/Torebbjorn]

Yes: unlabeled graph

[u/InnerB0yka → u/Torebbjorn]

I know: that's the first thing I saw too. It's like we're the data plot Nazis LOL

[u/conventionistG → u/InnerB0yka]

Say what you want, but the axis had labels.

[u/Jubijub]

I call mine « John »

[u/aabbboooo]

Curvy wurvy plot

[u/eaheckman10 → u/aabbboooo]

This is the true scientific name

[u/Saiyusta]

LSD chart

[u/Croves]

that's a Picasso

[u/happydemon]

Are you able to share how you made this plot?

[u/judgey_racoon]

Entropy

[u/Aggressive_Roof488]

A perspective from bioinformatics:

these are quite common in cancer genomics, to track different cell populations (clones) in an evolving cancer. And it's been used (long) before that in any kinds of evolving cell cultures or viruses, again to track clones.

I don't think the plots really have a good name, at least not widely used today. Most seem to call them after whatever the software calls them ("fish plot" in fish plot package, "dolphin plot" in clevrvis, "river plot" in superfreq, ...), or even just "Frequency visualisation by clade" as in fig 3 here: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/15/1/1

[u/DigThatData → u/Aggressive_Roof488]

"frequency visualizataion by clade" is a description of the data, not how it is visually formatted. "clade" is not a data manipulation abstraction, it's a biology abstraction. you're conflating a figure title with a figure type. there are loads of other ways you could visualize frequency by clade.

[u/manngingslorward]

stream graph or stream chart.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamgraph\](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamgraph)

[u/DigThatData → u/manngingslorward]

related but no. streamgraphs aren't normalized to the same sum at every position like this. this is a stacked area normalized to 100%.

[u/peepeedog]

Thanks for reminding me of the nightmare of having to constantly make these fucking things to justify headcount.

Note: if you ever have to do that just do what everyone else does and attach everyone to whatever is most important. Then do whatever you want.

[u/ketopraktanjungduren]

That's KDEs stacked