{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mwaskom/seaborn/issues/744","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mwaskom/seaborn/issues/744/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mwaskom/seaborn/issues/744/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mwaskom/seaborn/issues/744/events","html_url":"https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn/issues/744","id":114015726,"number":744,"title":"Add support for beeswarm","user":{"login":"DizietAsahi","id":13396853,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13396853?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi","html_url":"https://github.com/DizietAsahi","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-10-29T09:57:30Z","updated_at":"2015-10-29T09:59:14Z","closed_at":null,"body":"there is a feature that I find useful in R called beeswarm that allows to plot a scatterplot with jitter, but where the jitter is not random, but instead depends on the density of points. It gives a nice visual representation of the distribution of the data.\r\n\r\nIt is a different and complementary way to represent the data in addition to boxplots and violinplot. They could also be combined advantageously. For example, in violinplots there is a way to plot the datapoints with inner='points' but they often end up overlapping. Adding a inner='beeswarm' for example would allow plotting the points on top of the violinplot and preventing their overlap.\r\n\r\n![image](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/13396853/10815357/cd54db76-7e2b-11e5-9922-b3e0ac154c57.png)\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mwaskom/seaborn/issues/comments/152132649","html_url":"https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn/issues/744#issuecomment-152132649","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mwaskom/seaborn/issues/744","id":152132649,"user":{"login":"DizietAsahi","id":13396853,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13396853?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi","html_url":"https://github.com/DizietAsahi","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/DizietAsahi/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-29T09:59:14Z","updated_at":"2015-10-29T09:59:14Z","body":"PS:\r\nThere is a python package to plot beeswarms in matplotlib: https://github.com/mgymrek/pybeeswarm\r\n"}}