It emphasizes individual points in a distribution instead of binning them like a histogram.
Beeswarm charts are useful to highlight individual categories or entities. Animating them can help highlight change over time.
Defaults are generalized settings to work with many datasets. This is fine for analysis, but data graphics for presentation benefit from context-specific design.
The histogram is my favorite chart type, but it's unintuitive for many. So I've been using the less accurate but less abstract beeswarm.
Try the more element-based approach instead of your traditional histogram or boxplot.
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