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Boxplot with matplotlibΒΆ
An example of doing box plots with matplotlib
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8, 5))
axes = plt.subplot(111)
n = 5
Z = np.zeros((n, 4))
X = np.linspace(0, 2, n)
rng = np.random.default_rng()
Y = rng.random((n, 4))
plt.boxplot(Y)
plt.xticks([])
plt.yticks([])
# Add a title and a box around it
from matplotlib.patches import FancyBboxPatch
ax = plt.gca()
ax.add_patch(
FancyBboxPatch(
(-0.05, 0.87),
width=0.66,
height=0.165,
clip_on=False,
boxstyle="square,pad=0",
zorder=3,
facecolor="white",
alpha=1.0,
transform=plt.gca().transAxes,
)
)
plt.text(
-0.05,
1.02,
" Box Plot: plt.boxplot(...)\n ",
horizontalalignment="left",
verticalalignment="top",
size="xx-large",
transform=axes.transAxes,
)
plt.text(
-0.04,
0.98,
"\n Make a box and whisker plot ",
horizontalalignment="left",
verticalalignment="top",
size="large",
transform=axes.transAxes,
)
plt.show()
Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 0.049 seconds)