I'm working on a project with python 2.7 and Raspberry Pi wherein I'm polling some sensors and upon determining which value is being received, logging the data and then updating a plot with the ...

The box plot gives a concise picture of the distribution and emphasizes any extreme values. This particular box plot appears fairly symmetric, with median around 600. You can see two extreme values.

Huynh Huynh, Leonard S. Feldt, Estimation of the Box Correction for Degrees of Freedom from Sample Data in Randomized Block and Split-Plot Designs, Journal of Educational Statistics, Vol. 1, No. 1 ...

The box plot is a stylized representation of the distribution of a variable, and it is shown in Figure 38.19. You can also display mosaic plots for nominal variables, as shown in Figure 38.37. In a ...