# boxplot

### Example 9.17: (much) better pairs plots

December 6, 2011 |

Pairs plots (section 5.1.17) are a useful way of displaying the pairwise relations between variables in a dataset. But the default display is unsatisfactory when the variables aren't all continuous. In this entry, we discuss ways to improve these dis...

### Plotting grouped data vs time with error bars in R

October 31, 2011 |

This is my first blog since joiningR-bloggers. I’m quite excited to be part of this group and apologize if I boreany experienced R users with my basic blogs for learning R or offendprogrammers with my inefficient, sloppy coding. Hopefully writing for...

### Boxplots without boxes

June 14, 2011 |

Let’s say you have several categories with multiple data points each that you would like to plot as individual points. Even if you have only a single point, the R graphics package will plot a line (without a box for … Continue reading → [Read more...]

### More fun with boxplots

May 19, 2011 |

Here are a few more plotting options for boxplots: Let’s start plotting the full set plot(b$mod, b$x) Plot labels for a subset in full set plot (label all points x __ -1) text(subset(b$mod, b$x __ -1), subset(b$x, b$x __ -1), … Continue reading → [Read more...]

### Further Adventures in Visualisation with ggplot2

April 25, 2011 |

So I previously took a look at some data of player performance from a computer game. In this post, I’m going to do some further visualisations using ggplot2. The data consists of different types of player character, different roles for those characters, and their overall damage output (the unit ... [Read more...]

### Beeswarm Boxplot (and plotting it with R)

March 10, 2011 |

(The image above is called a “Beeswarm Boxplot” , the code for producing this image is provided at the end of this post) The above plot is implemented under different names in different softwares. This “Scatter Dot Beeswarm Box Violin – plot” (in the lack of an agreed upon term) is a ... [Read more...]

### How to label all the outliers in a boxplot

January 27, 2011 |

In this post I offer an alternative function for boxplot, which will enable you to label outlier observations while handling complex uses of boxplot. [Read more...]

### More climate extremes, or simply global warming ?

January 12, 2011 |

In the paper on the heat wave in Paris (mentioned here) I discussed changes in the distribution of temperature (and autocorrelation of the time series). During the workshop on Statistical Methods for Meteorology and Climate Change today (here) I o...

### Example 8.11: violin plots

October 26, 2010 |

We've continued to get useful feedback and ideas from our posts on the combination dotplot/boxplot and other ways to craft similar displays. Another notion is the violin plot, which combines a boxplot and a (doubled) kernel density plot. While the ba...

### Example 8.10: Combination dotplot/boxplot (teaching graphic in honor of World Statistics Day)

October 19, 2010 |

In honor of World Statistics Day and the read paper that my co-authors Chris Wild, Maxine Pfannkuch, Matt Regan, and I are presenting at the Royal Statistical Society today, we present the R code to generate a combination dotplot/boxplot that is useful...