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Plotting one's bloodwork data

abmayfield
Level VI

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.

Anderson B. Mayfield
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jthi
Super User


Re: Plotting one's bloodwork data

How does your data look like?

 

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

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You can also just have lines to indicate the reference values

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

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Or use Markers

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And there are plenty of other options, you can find inspiration from Master List – Pictures from the Gallery – Advanced Graph Building Series and from Essential Graphing (jmp.com) 

-Jarmo