Box plots

Understanding Data Visualization

Richie Cotton

Data Evangelist at DataCamp

You can't just color in histograms

Draw each histogram in its own panel

Draw each histogram in its own panel

Draw each histogram in its own panel

When should you use a box plot?

1. When you have a continuous variable, split by a categorical variable.
2. When you want to compare the distributions of the continuous variable for each category.

Histogram vs. box plot

Histogram vs. box plot: mid-line

Histograms vs. box plot: the box

Histograms vs. box plots: the whiskers

Monarchs by house

Let's practice!

Understanding Data Visualization