Another great Nathan Yau Flowing Data members only tutorial:Compact Ways to Visualize Distributions in R
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"For when you want to show or compare several distributions but don’t have a lot of space."
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- See also Beeswarm charts which are similar/complementary Beeswarm charts in R, Interactive Beeswarm charts in R and d3.js