AI engineering glossary · NumPy pandas visualization
What is box plot?
Box plot (also called box-and-whisker plot): A compact chart that summarises a distribution with a box from the first to third quartile, a line at the median, and whiskers reaching to typical extremes, with points beyond the whiskers drawn individually as possible outliers. Side by side, it compares groups well.
Box plot: an example
Box plots of salary for five job levels show how the median and spread rise with level and which individual salaries are unusually high.
Related terms
- Violin plot
- Histogram
- Outlier
- Quartile
More NumPy pandas visualization terms
- Broadcasting
- C order
- Categorical dtype
- Chunked reading
- Colormap
- Colour-blind-safe palette
- Concatenate
- Copy-on-write
Where you learn it
Box plot is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.