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General plots / Beeswarm plot

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How to read it

Beeswarm plot

Each point is one observation; points are spread sideways so they do not overlap, so the width of a group shows where values are concentrated.

The horizontal line is the median. Beeswarm plots suit groups of tens to a few hundred points, showing both the distribution and each sample.

Group comparisons (Mann–Whitney / Kruskal–Wallis + Dunn, or Welch t / ANOVA + Tukey) are listed in the table below rather than drawn.

With thousands of points per group the points shrink and may still overlap; use a violin plot instead.

Method

Boxes span the quartiles (Q1–Q3, R type 7) and whiskers reach the furthest value within 1.5 × IQR; densities use a Gaussian kernel (Silverman bandwidth). Tests: Welch t test, Mann–Whitney U (as scipy), one-way ANOVA with Tukey HSD, Kruskal–Wallis with Dunn’s test (Dunn 1964, Technometrics 6:241–252); multiple comparisons are adjusted by Benjamini–Hochberg.

Data size

Up to 40 groups; at most 10 comparison brackets are drawn (smallest P first); all comparisons are in the downloadable table.

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