Box Plot#

A Box Plot is a graphical representation based on the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile and maximum value of a quantitative data set.

Its dimensions are:

Dimension (mandatory fields are in bold)

Type

Description

X

target

It forces building several boxes shifted on the x-axis, according to attribute values.

Y

output

It states the attribute used to evaluate minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile and maximum value and representing the box. It is also used to define the y-axis scale.

Color

target

It controls the color of the various generated boxes.

Weight

weight

The attribute dropped here is used functionally to weight the statistical evaluation of minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile and maximum value for the Y attributes.

Note

The Box Plot owns a different dimension, the Weight, which is not related to any graphical dimension of the plot itself, but it is rather a functional dimension, meaning that its use modifies the way boxes are evaluated but not their graphical format.