R Data Visualization Recipes
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This approach is quite similar to dot plots but it is not a complete equivalent. While on dot plots the points are stacked, giving the audience quite a good idea about the format displayed by the distribution, the points plotted here are only jittered enough to deal over-plotting. It's quite hard to get an accurate idea on distribution format. On the other hand, points set this way are always honest about the values coming from the continuous variable, dot plots rarely are.