Adjacent boxplots or multiple facets on one axis

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The “fill” argument for box mark stacks boxplots above each other. Is it possible to have them adjacent to each other so don’t overlap?

Here is an example working document: Adjacent boxplots / workbook | Observable

In this example, I want the y axis to be a continuous variable. And I want to display boxplots showing three categorical variables: depth, clarity and color. If I could facet three variables on the x axis, that would work too.

One option would be to concatenate depth, clarity and color to create a new variable and use that to facet on x, but that’s too messy and the visual grouping is lost.

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It’s certainly technically feasible to “shift” each mark based on a variable, but isn’t that going too many encodings on a single chart?

Anyway, we’re trying to centralize Plot-related questions on GitHub discussions. Would you mind opening the question there?

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Will do. Thanks.