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  "abstract": "For empirical studies, social and health scientists give background characteristics of their sample and summarize them in the famous \"Table 1\". When treatment/ control groups are present, this table gives summary statistics by group to see whether the background characteristics differ by group. We propose snapshot plots --- parallel univariate plots with consistent highlighting --- to visualize such tables. Compared to \"Table 1\", such plots are designed to facilitate comparisons of background characteristics --- in particular among groups --- and give more detail on numerical variables. We provide a web app as well as a python implementation of snapshot plots. Snapshot plots arise as edge cases of hammock plots (parallel coordinate plots for mixed categorical/ numerical data). We demonstrate the usefulness of snapshot plots for two \"Table 1\"s.",
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      "name": "Matthias Schonlau"
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    {
      "name": "Sandra Huang"
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    {
      "name": "Tiancheng Yang"
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.28302",
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  "published": "2026-07-30",
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  "title": "Snapshot plots: displaying summary tables as parallel univariate plots with consistent color highlighting",
  "title_text": "Snapshot plots: displaying summary tables as parallel univariate plots with consistent color highlighting",
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