Beeswarm Plot by SmartVisuals

Every observation on the chart, packed without overlaps. Beeswarm, jitter and strip plots for Power BI that keep each point's identity and add the summary on top.

Free, and never blocked

• Three layouts: packed beeswarm, random jitter and strip, deterministic so exports never shimmer.
• Each point is a record: hover for its ID, value and extra tooltip fields; click to filter the report to it.
• Summary on top: median bar and mean marker, or a slim box with any whisker rule; quartiles by Excel / DAX INC or EXC or Tukey's hinges.
• Reference lines: mean, median and up to four percentiles, for all data or per group.
• Split By (two levels), sorting by name, minimum group size, horizontal or vertical layout, large-data input (Value as column + Count), a smart caption and a methods footnote.

Readers without a licence always see the free chart: no watermark, no broken report.

Power BI features (free)

• Tooltips: ID, value and your extra Tooltips fields on every point; n, median, quartiles and mean on every group; report page tooltips supported.
• Highlight and cross-filter: click a point or group to filter the report, Ctrl adds to the selection, cross-highlighting from other visuals keeps the whole as a ghost, bookmarks keep the selection, right-click context menu.
• Drilldown on a Group hierarchy (Plant > Line), drill up or expand all; conditional formatting (fx) of the group colour from a rule on the Value.
• Data labels for median, quartiles and mean; a legend for Split By (show, top or bottom position, font size, colour).
• Axes: axis titles, fixed minimum and maximum, log scale, decimals, font size and colour, grid lines, n per group.
• Data point markers with size, opacity and colour, jittering (packed, random or strip), four mean marker shapes, a colour per group.
• Responsive: on small tiles the caption, footnote and legend step aside so the points keep their room.
• Format on the canvas (on-object formatting).
• Four themes, four fonts, transparent background; localized in 20 languages (format pane, captions, tooltips, announcements).

Accessibility: one keyboard tab stop. Arrow keys, Home / End and Page Up / Down move between groups with a visible focus outline; Enter or Space filters the report to the focused group, Ctrl adds, Escape clears. A screen-reader live region announces each group's median, quartiles and n, and the chart is labelled with its smart caption. The Accessibility card sets the focus outline colour and width and a minimum text size. Statistic lines differ by dash pattern, never by colour alone; high-contrast mode redraws every point in the system foreground. Nothing animates.

Premium: compare and prove (per-user licence)

• Significance between groups: Welch t or Mann-Whitney U, Holm or Bonferroni, ANOVA or Kruskal-Wallis, letters or brackets.
• Mean confidence intervals, weights, spec limits (typed or from measures) with Cp to Cpm, small multiples.
• Sort by median, mean, IQR or n, seven more quartile types, Split By with 3+ levels, a second reference line.

Premium previews free in Desktop and edit mode. Statistics run offline, golden-tested against scipy and statsmodels; no external calls.

Single view or the multi-view?

This is the single-view edition ($1.99 per user per month). SmartVisuals Distribution ($4.49) adds box plot, violin, raincloud, ridgeline and histogram views over the same fields, with the same premium layer. Licences do not carry across offers. For point plots alone this one is cheaper; with three or more chart types the multi-view is.

New in 1.1.0.0: drilldown on Group, conditional formatting (fx) of the group colour; premium second reference line; defaults draw exactly what 1.0.1.0 drew. Sorting by a statistic, extra quartile types and 3+ Split By levels are now premium; reports created before 1.1.0.0 keep these features.

Documentation: https://smartvisuals.io/visuals/beeswarm | Support: https://smartvisuals.io/support#beeswarm | Release notes: https://smartvisuals.io/changelog#beeswarm