A bare minimum extension library with the sole aim of providing a dot plot (aka strip plot/dot chart)

• Designed to work with matplotlib and seaborn
• Hijacks plt.scatter or sns.scatterplot (optionally) to generate a dot plot.

installation

pip install dotplotlib

usage

First, import the package.

from dotplotlib.plots import dotchart

Then generate x, y data. Pass in just the column containing the unit that would go on the x-axis.

x, y = dotplot.create(x=mushroom['size'])

And that's all! Now you simply plot it as a scatter or scatterplot.

examples (1: basic matplotlib, 2: seaborn, 3: affinda)

Let's say you have data like this. Each row represents a mushroom.

          size   rating
--------------------------
0            4        2
1            5        7
2            3        7
3            3        3
4            6        5
5            4        3
6            6        8
7            8        9

from dotplotlib import dotplot

plt.scatter(x, y)

from dotplotlib import dotplot

x, y, c = dotplot.create(x=mushroom['size'], color_by=mushroom['rating'])