Box plots and Violin plots
Overview
Teaching: 20 min
Exercises: 0 minQuestions
What is box plot
Objectives
How to draw a nice box plot
Boxplot
Here I am plotting the boxplot of highway (hwy) fuel consumption (mpg) for each manufacturer.
ggplot(mpg,aes(x=manufacturer,y=hwy,
fill=factor(manufacturer)))+
geom_boxplot()+
geom_jitter()+
labs(title="Boxplot for Hwy per manufacturer",x="Manufacturer",y="Highway milage")+
theme_bw()+coord_flip()+
theme(legend.position = "none")
Violin plot
g <- ggplot(mpg, aes(class, cty))
g + geom_violin(aes(fill=class)) +
labs(title="Violin plot",
subtitle="City Mileage vs Class of vehicle",
caption="Source: mpg",
x="Class of Vehicle",
y="City Mileage")
Key Points
Box plot
Violin plot