#Box and whisker plot diagram how to#
#Box and whisker plot diagram series#

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#Box and whisker plot diagram how to#

I watched this YouTube video by stickpet on how to use Microsoft Excel 2016 to generate box plots.

#Box and whisker plot diagram series#

The Dummies series provide a good illustration of the box plot elements, which can be located here. I used several online references to write this article. Plotting these in Microsoft Excel 2016 will allow you to explore your data and motivate you to explore and generate some explanation or hypothesis for their behavior.

The box plot provides us with a nice data visualization of the mean number of visits across quarters including the variation and distribution of the data. This may be due to some kind of change (e.g., seasonal variation) and should be explored. We can see that there was an increase in the number of visits, on average, between Q1FY19 and Q3FY19, but this drop significantly in Q4FY19. However, there is greater variation in the distribution of the number of visits in Q2FY19 and Q3FY19 compared to Q1FY19 and Q4FY19. For each box plots, the mean indicated by the “X” is not too different from the median (indicated by the solid horizontal line). These box plots give us an idea of the changes in the number of visits across quarters including the distribution of the data. This article will highlight several of Tukey’s innovative data visualizations that continue to be used in today’s data analysis world. Tukey was responsible for developing innovative data visualizations including a new count tally system, stem-and-leaf displays, and box-and-whisker plot. Visualizing the data using his methods allows analysts to better understand the data. According to Tukey, data visualization plays an important role in EDA. Unlike confirmatory analysis, EDA uses data to identify potential hypothesis to explain observed phenomena and assist with selection of appropriate statistical tests.

According to Tukey, EDA was about hypothesis generation. Tukey developed the foundations for exploratory data analysis (EDA) which has taken root as a critical first step to understanding complexities of observations. He has been attributed with coining computer science terms such as “bit” (shortened version of binary digit) and “software.” However, Tukey is best remembered for his contributions to data visualizations. John Wilder Tukey (1915 to 2000) was a mathematician, statistician, and data visualization pioneer.