How to create a swarm plot with matplotlib

matplotlib swarmplot
Oren picture Oren · Mar 22, 2016 · Viewed 15.4k times · Source

I know the question is not very informative.. but as I do not know the name of his type of plot, I can not be more informative..

[EDIT] I changed the title, and now it is more informative...

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Answer

tmdavison picture tmdavison · Mar 22, 2016

You can do something similar with seaborn.swarmplot. I also use seaborn.boxplot (with the whiskers and caps turned off) to plot the mean and range:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
sns.set_style("whitegrid")
tips = sns.load_dataset("tips")
ax = sns.swarmplot(x="day", y="total_bill", data=tips)
ax = sns.boxplot(x="day", y="total_bill", data=tips,
        showcaps=False,boxprops={'facecolor':'None'},
        showfliers=False,whiskerprops={'linewidth':0})

plt.show()

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