HTTP/2 200 date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:58:43 GMT content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 server: cloudflare x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN x-content-type-options: nosniff expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT cache-control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0 pragma: no-cache link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: Accept-Encoding strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block nel: {"report_to":"cf-nel","success_fraction":0.0,"max_age":604800} report-to: {"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800,"endpoints":[{"url":"https://a.nel.cloudflare.com/report/v4?s=PjbiPkG6olK%2FEtTV0qOid5EqQRGxUgQB1rewjHxDk%2Bq5Lby4kBg2Reuylv4DL4DTt6TsVU3bP%2Bhww8IG%2FvE4wPetRMK77pNRUHBp6eIf"}]} cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC content-encoding: gzip cf-ray: 9c10762749cf5ace-BLR

• Membership
• Books
• Projects
• Learning
• Newsletters

• Member Login

Box Plot

The classic chart of quartiles, median, minimum, and maximum shows a basic view of distributions.

Tutorials and Guides

How to Visualize and Compare Distributions in R

Single data points from a large dataset can make it more relatable, but those individual numbers don't mean much without something to compare to. That's where distributions come in.

How to Read and Use a Box-and-Whisker Plot

Believe it or not, the box-and-whisker is not just a box and some whiskers.

Examples

Age and Occupation

Whether it’s because of experience, physical ability, or education level, some jobs tend towards a certain age of worker more than others.

What the Sexes Want, in Speed Dating

A few years ago I downloaded speed dating data from experiments conducted by…

Olympian age distributions compared →

Last week, the Washington Post compared the ages of Olympians, but it only…

• About
• Contact
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• Bluesky
• RSS

Copyright © 2007-Present FlowingData. All rights reserved.