Diagram: strip plot — Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)

chart

strip plot

also: jitter plot, dot strip plot, strip chart

Individual values projected onto a single axis.

diagramme en bandes

aussi : tracé en bandes de points

Valeurs individuelles projetées sur un axe unique.

Classification

chart
points and bubbles › dot strips
ranking, distribution; Financial Times Visual Vocabulary

Channels

position on common scale; main: value
spatial region; secondary: group

Variants

barcode plotthin ticks

Attestation

French term: Financial Times Visual Vocabulary, French version ↗

Scientific literature

OpenAlex: 105 papers since 1996, 45% in the last five years; mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Engineering, Medicine

Seminal references

first known use (1644) van Langren (1644). La Verdadera Longitud por Mar y Tierra. Anvers; Friendly & Denis 2001, Friendly & Wainer 2021

R packages

R ggplot2::geom_point(); GitHub 7 025 stars; last commit 2026-10; paper (33 455 citations) Points alignés sur un axe, séparés par position = position_jitter().

R code of the ggplot2 example

set.seed(20261014)
library(ggplot2)
library(palmerpenguins)

p <- ggplot(penguins, aes(x = bill_length_mm, y = species, colour = species)) +
  geom_jitter(height = 0.15, width = 0, size = 1.4, alpha = 0.5, na.rm = TRUE) +
  scale_x_continuous(labels = lex_number, breaks = lex_break_breaks, expand = lex_break_expand) +
  labs(title = "Adelie penguins have the shortest bills",
       subtitle = "One point per penguin, shifted up or down at random so as not to overlap",
       x = "Bill length (mm)", y = NULL,
       caption = "Data: palmerpenguins (Horst, Hill & Gorman 2020)") +
  theme_lex_viz(grid = "x", arrows = "x", break_not_zero = "x") +
  theme(legend.position = "none")

Sources (15)

78 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 4 books

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Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/strip-plot.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. strip plot. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/strip-plot.html

BibTeX

@incollection{taudiere2026-strip-plot,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {strip plot},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/strip-plot.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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