[michaelhoffman]

Wherever possible, I use sina plots, which provide many of the advantages of violin plots while actually showing the individual data points.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_plot

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sinaplot/vignettes/S...

Adding on a representation of mean in a different style (like a black bar) can be helpful. So can a boxplot-style indication of variance, in some cases.