How to read a box plot (a.k.a. a box-and-whisker plot) - Nick Desbarats

Data visualization expert Nick Desbarats explains of how to read a box plot (a.k.a. a box-and-whisker plot), and shows an alternative chart type (a "frequency heatmap") that many people find to be more intuitive.

[eco]

Your explanation is just like strawberry - so easy to grasp and very delicious! Thank you very very much!

[koushikrafsan]

Best video on Box plot, I found so far. It is extremely helpful for me.

[valerioharvey]

finally an explanation that I can at least grasp

[thejohnringo]

Your explanations were exceptionally clear.

[anima]

As someone who's studying to become a psychologist this was very useful thank you!

[jjsambac]

great video! straightforward and informative. Loved that you also offered an alternative option

[matthewkarasoulis]

Amazing video, really helped me out alot!

[PrathamGupta-gb]

Perfect Video. The only video one need

[dianndp]

It was very helpful and easy to understand, thanks for the hard work

[chrismalingshu]

Informative & easy to understand! Thanks for the explanation!

[stephanie_ong]

Hi Nick, thank you so much for your very informative video. In my work it is not very common to display box and whisker plots to management. It is more common to show long-term average values, monthly average (I run scenarios in a model and do comparative analysis)

[agermoune]

Thx Nick for sharing your knowledge. What I like about ur teaching is how reasonable your arguments are and inspire me immediately when to apply what I learn from you.
Subscribed immediately.
Was looking for your Beyond dashboards book, but couldn't find it!

[SweetPeachannel]

very useful, thank you and great explanation/

[xunnygujjar]

what an explanation. I Appreciate. Thank You.

[Dergicetea]

Mr., I have got a question. In which tool did you design the Frequency Heatmap? It was very stylish and clear to interpret data.

[adityaagrawal]

unfortunate that such a relevant channel has 118 subscribers only given that it has been more than an year.

[t]

Oh my God thank you so much I finally understand it

[helenarc]

this explanation helped me, thank youuuu!!!

[spilledgraphics]

Hi Nick, congrats on this exemplary explanation about box plot. Curious to know what´s your opinion on why people don´t find this chart very intuitive? (minute 04:20) .... are there any like sociological or maybe anthropological reasons to explain why people have a hard time understanding a very informative plot? Please if you have any links to refer me, I would greatly appreciate it. Lastly, do you make those charts on the video with Excel or Tableau? thanks, mate, greetings from Perú.

[Arqueovader]

Nice video, but how do you locate extreme values?