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Make a line chart flatter

I used R package "ggplot2" to draw a line chart. Now i want to make it flatter. Is there any data processing or graphical processing that can do this? Like this: enter image description here

to this: enter image description here

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updated by Matthias Zepper Matthias Zepper • written by 3095916029 • 3095916029

Check out geom_smooth(), using something like a Loess regression fit or a GAM. Essentially, it will come down to smoothing out these outliers to get a nicer "flat" line.

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written by ATpoint ATpoint

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The easiest will be to exchange the geom_line() layer for a geom_smooth().

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written by Matthias Zepper Matthias Zepper

This is a simple sliding window averaging.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average

Ideally the window size should be an odd number, and larger windows will cause more smoothing of the plot. I would imagine that 11-21 range would work for your plot.

There are existing solutions to calculate the new values:

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written by Mensur Dlakic Mensur Dlakic

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