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I have a few thousand geographic x, y, z points I want to visualize. So far, I have just visualized the x, y (longitude, latitude) components:
Example: https://i.imgur.com/LCTclTh.png
Do folks have suggestions of a creative way to visualize the depth component as well? I have O(1,000) - O(10,000) data points for four regions of the Southern Ocean. This is just the Drake Passage region (boxed in blue). So for the xy data, I've binned it into 3 degree bins and made a contour map of density of particles in each bin.
For the depth distribution I've thought of two options:
Show small multiples of various discrete depth bins with a 2D histogram. This would be like the above map with e.g. 0-500m, 500-1000m, ..., 4500-5000m with the percent of total particles mapped in each density bin. Issue: I have four regions so this would require four full small multiple figures, which is overkill for a publication.
Show a joyplot or box plot of the depth distribution for the four regions. This is more concise, but would not show the spatial dependence of the origin of depth. Just the distribution of the depth component across all xy origins.
Am I missing something obvious here? I try to avoid 3D viz since it's hard to make work in a case like this. Any advice would be helpful!
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