API Response Times — Violin Plot Example

• The US distribution has two clear bulges — a fast path and a slow path, most likely a cache hit versus miss.
• EU is unimodal and tightly clustered despite a similar median, so the averages of these two regions mean very different things.
• A box plot of this same data would show comparable medians and hide the split entirely.

Region,Latency (ms)
EU,96
EU,99
EU,102
EU,104
EU,108
EU,109
EU,112
EU,114
EU,118
EU,121
EU,124
EU,127
US,86
US,88
US,91
US,94
US,96
US,99
US,132
US,136
US,138
US,141
US,146
US,149

Illustrative latency samples with a deliberately bimodal US distribution. Replace with your own before publishing.