Illustrating patients and categories over time

Dear all

I have a set of approximately 300 patients and data for each patient for 24 hours. The data allows me to attribute one of 7 categories to each patient on an hourly basis, thus I have 24 different entries containing 1 out of 7 possible categories for each patient.

I would like to visualize the path that each patient takes from category to category at each hour to see if a pattern emerges. E.g. patient one could run hour1/cat1;hour2/cat2;hour3/cat1;hour4/cat7; and so on.

Any ideas? Your help is greatly appreciated!

[darova]

Did you try something? What about plot()? Can you attach the data?

[Tommy]

Would something like a parallel coordinates plot help visualize the data? With categories on the y axis and hours on the x axis.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/parallelplot.html

[Kaspar Bachmann]

That looks promising, i didn‘t know that function! Thank you