Plotting one's bloodwork data

abmayfield — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:22:49 GMT

I am trying to adapt a common means of depicting blood biomarker data, where your value is shown as being either within or out of a reference range. Now I could just present a table with the value and the reference range, but I'm trying to plot out something more like this example. There is a completely different way that I tried using parallel plots to basically show if a biomarker was within spec limits, but I honestly feel like this plot is ugly and hard to read (second attachment). I would only want to depict results from a single sample at a time or it would be too complex (and so will use a local data filter), but I am wondering if there are control charts that are effectively doing exactly what I want: depicting where your value falls along a pre-set reference interval. I feel fairly confident I can do better than this parallel plot (!), so any suggestions would be appreciated.

Re: Plotting one's bloodwork data

jthi — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:16:23 GMT

How does your data look like?

You can create something like this in JMP but it will take quite a lot of tinkering

You can also just have lines to indicate the reference values

or most likely better option is to use Page instead of group X or Group y (axis are most likely different for the measurements)

Or use Markers

And there are plenty of other options, you can find inspiration from and from Essential Graphing (jmp.com)

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