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<h2 id="a-first-parallel-coordinate-plot">A first parallel coordinate plot<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#a-first-parallel-coordinate-plot"></a>
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<p>Parallel coordinate plots put a number of variables side-by-side - similar to side-by-side dotplots, and connect the dots belonging to the same observational unit by lines.</p>
<p>In this implementation, we are separating the data wrangling part from the visual rendering. Three main functions are part of the data