Exploring Box and Whisker Plots

To represent data in time series

To summarize data distribution

To display every individual data point

To calculate data averages

Minimum

Upper Quartile

Mean

Median

The maximum data value

The median of the upper half of the data

The median of the lower half of the data

The average value of the dataset

Average of upper and lower quartiles

Maximum minus minimum

Median of all data points

Upper quartile minus lower quartile

The first vertical line

The second vertical line

The middle line of the box

The last vertical line

Drawing the whiskers

Calculating the median

Identifying outliers

Ordering the data from least to greatest

It's the smallest data value

It's the average of all data points

It's the value just below the dataset's median

It's the median of the lower half of the data

The difference between the highest and lowest values

The average value of the data

The total spread of the data

The range of the most central 50% of the data

Less variability in the middle 50% of the data

More outliers in the data

Higher overall data values

Lower minimum data value

The median is closer to the maximum or minimum

Data is uniformly distributed

Greater spread of data on that side

More data points near the median