Friday, September 9, 2016

What is a box plot?

This kind of data plot is required while showing statistical analysis of distributed financial data. It is usually called Box plot and sometimes Box and Box & Whisker plot.

Here is an example of how it looks:


BoxPlot_00


The plot represents some Financial data (Amount) over 4 quarters for three years.

The details of what the plot shows is in the next image:





BoxPlot_01

This data is from the demo database on SAP SQL Anywhere 17 server. The data visualization is carried out by using R Script in Power BI.

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