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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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Plotting errorbars on top of swarmplot

How would I go about plotting the mean and errorbars on top of a swarmplot like this one from the seaborn docs? import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import seaborn as sns tips = sns.load_dataset("tips") sns.swarmplot(x="day", y="total_bill",…
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Overplot seaborn regplot and swarmplot

I would like to overplot a swarmplot and regplot in seaborn, so that I can have a y=x line through my swarmplot. Here is my code: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import seaborn as sns sns.regplot(y=y, x=x, marker=' ',…
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How to sort axes in seaborn so that categories with most values are displayed

I have a dataset with about 320k records. Of these, I want to display a swarmplot with the top 20 entities of the category in the x axis (Refined_ID in this case) by their count. How can one achieve that? For example, if my data is: Refined_ID…
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Markers in swarmplot being replaced

import palettable bmap = palettable.tableau.Tableau_20.mpl_colors all_markers = ['s', 'o', '^', '*', 'v'] * 100 max_values = len(bmap) if len(bmap) < len(all_markers) else len(all_markers) # Make sure equal number of cycle elements for color and…
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Add another "hue" category but with markers instead of colors

I am trying to add another dimension to a seaborn swarmplot such that the extra dimension is marked by a unique marker. I already have the hue set to a column in the dataframe, but I'm at a loss as for how I can add another way of distinguishing…
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Legend from seaborn box-plot disrupts the alignment with overlayed swarm-plot

edit: solved here seaborn boxplot and stripplot points aren't aligned over the x-axis by hue In the above case, the swarmplot was shifted in the overlay and the resolution was achieved from setting dodge = true in swarmplot. Here, the boxplot was…
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How to show a grouped legend for the hue in a swarmplot

How can I group the colors shown in the picture below? If I show the legend, I see all the single value color. ax1=sns.swarmplot(x='y', y='Fos', data=result, color="k", alpha=0.8, hue="y4",…
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Sorting individual points in seaborn swarmplot

Is there a way to change the order of the individual dots in a seaborn swarmplot within the categories? That is, I would like to sort them so that all points of the same color are bunched together and we can group them in the order…
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How to map values on to a range in seaborn swarmplot?

I have an array of 100 float values in the range [0, 1]. (min and max values are not necessarily 0 and 1) I want to map them to a hue in the "icefire" color palette, in a swarmplot. In other words I want the data points, the dots, to have a hue…
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Swarm plot with Echarts

Swarmplots don't seem to exist in Echarts. But since Echarts can be full of surprises, I was wondering if, somehow, there is a trick to make a swarm plot. I was thinking of maybe an hidden option, or a feature that could be diverted from its…
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Swarmplot with connected dots

I'm try to keep track of changes within a dataframe using a boxplot combined with a swarmplot, and lines connecting data points. So far I only managed to combine the boxplot with the swarmplot, using this code: import seaborn as sns from itertools…
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Seaborn combining barplot with swarmplot

I'm looking to combine a barplot with a swarmplot in seaborn, when using the "col" feature of a catplot. I am aware that this question was asked before in seaborn overlap swarmplot on barplot, but this solution does not work for me. I want to make…
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Make sns.swarmplot with respect to two categorical variables in x-axis

I have a pandas DataFrame and, I could make a sex-age swarm plot (picture have two columns male and female). and also diabetes-age swarm plot (two columns yes and no) How could I make a swarm plot with four columns: male&yes male&no female&yes…
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Swarmplot "gradient"

I want to plot a swarmplot like this I can highlight the specific point. But I want all the points get kind of the colormap. And the specific point has the respectively color. I'm trying hue and palette but it does not work. palette =…
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Related to multiple swamplots inside a figure Pandas

This question is related to group multiple plot in one figure python, "individual 28 plots". This is my code: for column in df.columns[1:]: sns.set() fig, ax = plt.subplots(nrows=3, ncols=3) # tried 9 plots in one figure …
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