Strip plot

Each value as a tick. It sits in the Distribution group of the widget library.

When to use it#

Use a strip plot to show every value in each group as a short tick along a value axis. It is the simplest way to see where individual transactions fall, such as each payment to your top suppliers, while still grouping them.

When to pick something else#

• Ticks with the same value hide each other? Use a Jitter plot or Beeswarm.
• Thousands of values? A Box plot or Violin summarises better.
• One field, no groups? Use a Histogram.
• Comparing totals per group? Use a Column chart.

The data it needs#

Pick these in the Data tab of the inspector. BankSync suggests a column for each when your source has an obvious match.

Each row is drawn as it is, so shape the rows first if you need totals. See Shaping data.

Strip plot options#

This chart has no options of its own; everything on its Style tab is the shared chart styling below.

Shared chart styling#

Every chart also has the shared styling options. These apply to this one:

• Legend: position, layout and which series show.
• Axes: titles, tick labels and number format.
• Grid, title, padding and background.
• Value labels on the marks.
• Categories and labels: top N with "Other", sort order, readable labels, the handwritten callout.
• Style: corner radius, line width, opacity and animation.
• Tooltip on hover.
• Click to filter: clicking a mark can filter the rest of the dashboard. See Filters and cross-filtering.
• Colours: follow the dashboard palette or pick one for this chart.

Messy data#

• Blank or non-numeric values are skipped, not drawn at zero. With none left you see "No numbers to show".
• Identical values land on the same tick. Ticks fade as a group grows, so heavy areas look darker rather than hidden.
• Above 2,000 values the chart samples evenly and notes "Showing 2,000 of …".
• Negative values are fine; the axis is not forced to include zero.
• Too many groups for the width fold into "Other (n)", keeping the groups with the most values.

On a phone#

Strip plots hold up well on a narrow phone card because each tick needs little width. Around a dozen groups fit across the full-width card before the rest fold into "Other".

Related charts#

• Scatter plot: Two measures on x/y
• Histogram: Distribution of one measure
• Box plot: Quartiles with whiskers
• Violin: Density per category
• Beeswarm: Non-overlapping dot plot
• Density: Kernel-smoothed distribution
• Ridgeline: Stacked distributions
• Jitter plot: Scattered dots per category