Charts

Grouped Lollipop Chart

Offers a cleaner and less cluttered look than the grouped bar chart.

What is a grouped violin plot?

Grouped lollipop charts are essentially a stylized variant of a bare bones grouped bar chart. Replacing the rectangular bars with a line (the "stick") and circle (the "lollipop head"). By clustering the data, grouped lollipop charts enable rapid side-by-side comparisons both between different groups and across their respective subcategories.

The lollipop chart was designed to offer a cleaner, less cluttered look than the traditional bar chart. This is advantageous when comparing a large number of categories, as can occur with high-throughput screening, "omics" related workflows, etc.

You can switch to displaying bars instead of lollipops by changing the style with the design interface
WARNING: Lollipop charts can only show a single point and are unable to visually convey error estimates or the underlying shape of the data. Thus, they are best suited for single-point metrics, datasets with low dispersion, or comparing a large number of categories.
Default grouped lollipop chart
A stylistic variant of the traditional clustered bar chart
Grouped lollipop chart displaying the mean value across two clusters and three subgroups in Graphmatik's default styling.
Make sure to check out these tips on how to create beautiful grouped plots
Easily swap directions
Alternate between vertical and horizontal violin plots by toggling between columns or rows.
A horizontal grouped lollipop chart showing two clusters, each containing three subgroups arranged from smallest to largest. The overall largest subgroup across clusters is highlight in purple.
Labeling
Switch to Graphmatik's "ghost" theme, to use data labels instead of axes. Labels reduce visual clutter without compromising clarity.
A labeled grouped lollipop chart comparing data across two clusters and three subcategories. The data is arranged from smallest to largest, with the overall largest subgroup highlighted in purple.

Chart properties

PropDefaultDescription
central tendencymedian
median
The middle most value of a sorted set of numbers.
mean
The sum of a set of values divided by the number of values in the set.
themedefault
default
Graphmatik's default chart theme which displays data relative to axes.
ghost
The "ghost" theme removes axes in favor of annotated labels.
stylelollipops
lollipops
Line and dot representation of the data.
bars
Traditional rectangular bars are used to represent the data.
sortnone
none
The clusters are arranged in insertion order.
ascending
Clusters are arranged from smallest to largest.
descending
Clusters are arranged from largest to smallest.
group byfactor
factor
Bars will be grouped by the selected factor, with the other factor defining the subgroups.

Grouped Violin Plot

A hybrid clustered plot displaying density curves alongside summary elements.

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