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A swarm plot (also known as a "beeswarm plot") is a type of data visualization that presents a categorical scatterplot with non-overlapping points.

Description

A swarm plot (also known as a "beeswarm plot") is a type of data visualization that presents a categorical scatterplot with non-overlapping points. It can also be thought of as a variant of a , but with non-overlapping points.

This method of presentation can be helpful if you wish to plot a data distribution while retaining all of the individual data points, especially if many of your data points are concentrated within a narrow range. However, it is not recommended to use beeswarm plots when there are many data points, as the "swarming" can create visual artifacts.

Tools for producing swarm plots exist for programming languages/packages such as , , and . This tag should be used for any questions involving the formatting and/or implementation of these plots.

Implementations

Seaborn, for Python

The beeswarm package for R

Additional Resources

  • A blog post on swarm plots.
  • A data science blog post with advice on when and how to use swarm plots.
  • Examples of swarm plots made using D3
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Make seaborn swarmplot width the same as the violin

I am trying to plot a swarplot on top of a violin plot. Is there any way to make the swarm width to be shortened just like the width option from violin plot? Would it be easier to use a matplotlib.scatter to do it instead of…
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color seaborn swarmplot points with additional metadata beyond hue in boxplot

Say I have data that I want to box plot and overlay with a swarm plot in seaborn, whose colors of the points add additional information on the data. Question: How can I get box plots to be close to each other for a given x axis value (as is done in…
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Seaborn swarmplot break into lines

I'm trying to make this swarmplot with seaborn My problem is that the swarms are too wide. I want to be able to break them up into rows of maximum 3 dots per row This is my code: # Import modules import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as…
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Seaborn legend modification for multiple overlapping plots

I am trying to create a seaborn boxplot and overlay with individual data points using seaborn swarmplot for a dataset that has two categorical variables (Nameplate Capacity and Scenario) and one continuous variable (ELCC values). Since I have two…
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swarmplot palette in power bi doesn't change the color

I am trying to work with power bi and python by creating a single dimension clustering with swarmplot. Everything is perfect except the color scale that I assign to it. This is my code. X="Centros" (crosses) and hue="Equipos" (teams). import…
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Annotating Swarmplot in Seaborn

So I'm still getting to grips with Python after coming over from R recently. I'm struggling to automatically annotate plots from DF Column. Which is easily done in R. I was helped the other day on the same matter on MPL Scatter plots. But I've been…
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Seaborn Swarmplot Axis Interval Formatting

Currently, my seaborn swarm plot has the x axis intervals too close together resulting in a plot that looks like this: image Below is my current code where. Toy data x-values (32, 34, 76, 34, 64, 34, 23, 76, 34, 63, 75, 34, 76, 34, 34, 45, 56, 67,…
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Plot another point on top of swarmplot

I want to plot a "highlighted" point on top of swarmplot like this The swarmplot don't have the y-axis, so I have no idea how to plot that point. import seaborn as sns sns.set(style="whitegrid") tips = sns.load_dataset("tips") ax =…
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how to arrange dots from seaborn swarmplot and respective boxplot, after grouping

Does anyone know of a way to place the dots of grouped swarmplots, on their respective boxplot? As it is right now, the grouping causes the dots to appear on the midline of the two groups (see attached…
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What is the problem with hue in my swarmplot?

I have this dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/abcsds/pokemon/download. I loaded it and did some changes: import pandas as pd import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import seaborn as sns import os for dirname, _, filenames in os.walk('/kaggle/input'): …
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Beeswarm plot, split "swarm" y value based on boolean

I have been trying to get a modified beeswarm plot up and running. What is "special" about it is I'm trying to split the y values based on a boolean. So you can imagine a kind of double beeswarm visual -- one section has circles appended above the x…
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is it feasible to plot a swarm plot for data-points around 50000 in jupyter-notebook?

I have categorical data containing col1 and col2. Here col1 is divided into 5 categories. Data points corresponding to this dataset is 50000 i.e no. of rows. I want to plot a swarmplot using seaborn swarmplot function in jupyter notebook. But it is…
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Python Seaborn swarmplot order of the dodge

In Seaborn, I am looking to define the order in which the hue variables are presented when using the dodge functionality. Using the seaborn swarmplot documentation documentation as an example, in the plot where dodge is explained, they show smoker…
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R-package beeswarm generates same x-coordinates

I am working on a script where I need to calculate the coordinates for a beeswarm plot without immediately plotting. When I use beeswarm, I get x-coordinates that aren't swarmed, and more or less the same value: But if I generate the same plot…
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Python: swarm plot covers the median line in box plot

When plotting a swarm plot (seaborn) over a box plot, the points may cover the median line of a box plot. How can I do the swarm plots dots a bit more transparent so that I also see the median of a box plot? On the plot we do not see the median line…
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