{"id":11743,"date":"2020-09-27T09:58:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T13:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=11743"},"modified":"2020-09-27T09:58:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T13:58:44","slug":"r2020b-swarmchart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2020\/09\/27\/r2020b-swarmchart\/","title":{"rendered":"R2020b: swarmchart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jiro<\/a>'s Pick this week is swarmchart<\/tt><\/a>, a new visualization function in R2020b.<\/p>

Following Sean's post<\/a> from last week, I'd like to highlight a new function from the newest release of MATLAB<\/a>.<\/p>

Many, many years ago, I Picked<\/a> a File Exchange entry called beeswarm plot<\/a>. It's a vizualization that lets you see the distribution of the data along a dimension.<\/p>

data = {randn(1, 25), randn(1, 100) + 1, randn(1, 300) - 0.5};\r\nplotSpread(data, ...<\/span>\r\n    'xNames'<\/span>, {'one'<\/span>, 'two'<\/span>, 'three'<\/span>}, ...<\/span>\r\n    'distributionMarkers'<\/span>, {'o'<\/span>, '+'<\/span>, '.'<\/span>});\r\n<\/pre>\"\" 
You can also see similar type of plots by searching for \"violin plot\"<\/a>.<\/p>
In R2020b, you can now create this type of visualization with the new function swarmchart<\/tt><\/a>.<\/p>
data = [data{:}];\r\nx = categorical([ones(1,25) 2*ones(1,100) 3*ones(1,300)],[1 2 3],[\"one\"<\/span> \"two\"<\/span> \"three\"<\/span>]);\r\n\r\nclf\r\nswarmchart(x,data)\r\n<\/pre>\"\" 
Comments<\/b><\/p>
Give it a try and let us know what you think here<\/a>.<\/p>

\r\n      Published with MATLAB® R2020b
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If you are on an older release of MATLAB, you can make use of the entries on File Exchange, but I recommend you upgrade to the newest release to take advantange of the plethora of new features<\/a> that come with it.<\/p>