Demystifying Box-and-whisker plots — Part 1 - Evangelism - Infragistics.com Blog
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If you browse through a large, printed, newspaper and pick out all the charts you find you’ll probably come across some of the following: bar chart, timeseries (line chart), pie chart, donut chart, stacked area chart. You may come across the odd scatter plot too. If you’ve picked up the New York Times on a good day then you might even stumble into a connected scatter plot. What you’re highly unlikely to find is a box-and-whisker plot (aka a “boxplot” or a “box plot”). By contrast, they’re very popular in scientific circles.
