Great points! I’ll keep those in mind when I try my hand at these dot plots.

Yes, I’ve run into the same issue. My first choice is to place the labels on top of the tiny dots (so there aren’t actually dots showing at all, just the numbers or percentages — very sleek!). But some datasets have values that fall so close together, and then everything gets smushed, so I’ll arrange the labels to the left or right. In later editing stages of the document, I make sure all the dots plots have the exact same format, i.e., you wouldn’t have one dot plot with labels on top of the dots and another with labels to the left and right.