Beeswarm

Transform your data into beautiful and insightful Beeswarm charts

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About

About Beeswarm

Unleash the potential of Beeswarm charts with our Beeswarm Chart Extension for Tableau, specially crafted to enhance your data visualization with a distinctive and insightful display. This extension allows you to create Beeswarm plots, which are perfect for representing the distribution of data points without overlap, revealing underlying patterns in a visually compact form.

Beeswarm charts are excellent for displaying distributions of data across categories in a way that maximizes space and avoids overlapping points. This makes it easy to identify clusters, gaps, outliers, and the overall spread of your data. By providing a clear view of each data point, Beeswarm charts are especially useful in detailed exploratory data analysis where individual data values are of interest.

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Key features

Everything you need

Choose to display data along the X, Y, or both axes
Automated or customizable axis options for optimal data display
Adjustable size and collision node forces for enhanced data clarity

Best used for

When Beeswarm shines

Displaying distribution of non-overlapping individual data points
Analyzing and comparing density and distribution across a metric
Clear visualization of clusters, outliers, and variations within groups

Setup

Setup in Tableau

Two short phases: add the Viz Extension to your workbook once, then drop the relevant fields on the new Marks Card.

Phase 1

Add the extension to Tableau

Open the Marks card and choose Add Extension On any Tableau worksheet (Desktop, Cloud or Server), open the Marks card dropdown and select "Add Extension". A new dialog will list available Viz Extensions.
Pick the Exchange listing or upload the .trex file Either choose "Access Extensions on the Exchange" for the free hosted build, or click "Access local extensions" and upload the .trex file you received with your LaDataViz license.
Review and accept the data-access prompt Tableau will ask you to allow the extension to read the worksheet's aggregated data. Accept it — a new Viz Extension Marks Card will appear next to Color, Size, Tooltip, etc.

Tableau's official Viz Extensions guide

Phase 2

Configure Beeswarm

Drag a Measure on X and a Dimension on Detail.
Click Format Extension to configure the visualization.

Security & Privacy

Enterprise-grade by design

Every LaDataViz Viz Extension is built so your data never leaves Tableau. Here's exactly how we keep it that way.

No data is ever stored As a recognized Tableau Partner, your data is never stored anywhere — not even temporarily. Everything runs in your browser.

Only aggregated data The extension cannot access your data source’s raw fields. It only reads the aggregated marks the Worksheet already displays.

Cloud or on-premise Use the hosted cloud version, or deploy a packaged build inside your own environment with no internet connection required.

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