I have seen this wonderful boxplot in this article (Fig.2). As you can see, this is a boxplot on which are superimposed a scatter of black points: x indexes the black points (in a random order), y is the variable of interest. I would like to do something similar using Matplotlib, but I have no idea where to start. So far, the boxplots which I have found online are way less cool and look like this: Documentation of matplotlib: http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.boxplot Ways to colorize boxplots: https://github.com/jbmouret/matplotlib_for_papers#colored-boxes Continue reading...