I have a tabular dataset that contains 75 samples (rows) and measures of 22 different human cell types (columns), like the following:
# pandas dataframe:
df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(75, 22), columns=
['B cells naive','B cells memory','Plasma cells','T cells CD8','T cells CD4 naive','T cells CD4 memory resting','T cells CD4 memory activated','T cells follicular helper','T cells regulatory (Tregs)','T cells gamma delta','NK cells resting','NK cells activated','Monocytes','Macrophages M0','Macrophages M1','Macrophages M2','Dendritic cells resting','Dendritic cells activated','Mast cells resting','Mast cells activated','Eosinophils','Neutrophils'])
I want to visualize how much of each of the 22 cell types present in the 75 samples. So I thought to use a stacked bar graph where each bar represent a sample and the stacks show the estimated number of each cell type found in the sample. Here is the graph:
Problem: the cell types represented in the stacked bar graph do not have unique and distingishable color. For example, there are three cell types have the the same color (red) and this makes the graph pointless because we can not visualize the frequency of each cell types per sample.
Question: what are some possible ways to distinguish the cell types for each sample? ... Any ideas what sets of colors and/or patterns could be used to solve this problem?
Do you think there are other ways to visualize, other than a stacked bar graph?
Thanks!