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BeWu
Frequent Visitor
3 years ago

boxplot with jittering

Hi,    I have a boxplot created using visual "Box and Whisker by MAQ Software".  Is it possible to add jittering to the boxplot? When I create a measure  Jitter = 0 - (RAND() - 0.2) it is ...
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ppm1
Solution Sage
3 years ago

Here's an example of one way to do it, with the Deneb visual.

 

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{
  "data": {"name": "dataset"},
  "facet": {
    "column": {"field": "Subcategory"}
  },
  "spec": {
    "transform": [
      {
        "calculate": "random()-0.5",
        "as": "jitter"
      }
    ],
    "layer": [
      {
        "mark": "point",
        "encoding": {
          "x": {
            "field": "jitter",
            "type": "quantitative",
            "scale": {
              "domain": [-10, 10]
            },
            "axis": null
          },
          "y": {
            "field": "Total Qty",
            "type": "quantitative"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "mark": {
          "type": "boxplot",
          "extent": "min-max"
        },
        "encoding": {
          "y": {
            "field": "Total Qty",
            "type": "quantitative"
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

 

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