Introducing seasonal plots

A seasonal plot is a line plot with a separate line for each seasonal cycle. For example, for data with daily seasonality, a seasonal plot can show daily seasonal cycles in parallel in different weeks, months, or years.

In the following subsections, we will introduce insights you can gain from a seasonal plot and show how you can build a seasonal plot in KNIME.

Comparing seasonal patterns in a seasonal plot

Since a seasonal plot compares different seasonal cycles that follow each other in the same time series, this visualization technique compares relationships within the time series.

In a seasonal plot, you can see the seasonality as a collection of similarly behaving lines over a single seasonal cycle. The x axis shows the progression of the seasonal cycle—for example, from hour 0 to hour 24—while the y axis shows aggregated values by units within the seasonal cycle.

The following screenshot shows an example seasonal plot with...