Epic idea: Box and wiskers

[Miguel_Myers]

Implementing a ‘Box and Whiskers’ chart as a core visual in Power BI could greatly enhance the platform’s data visualization capabilities. This type of chart is instrumental in statistical analysis, as it displays the distribution of data into quartiles, highlights the mean and outliers, and indicates variability outside the upper and lower quartiles.

[daniel_webb1]

Would be great if it could include an option to show the individual points as a jitter plot next to the box

[rmechaber]

This is a fantastic and needed plot type -- we use boxplots all the time, and we've had to rely on R or Python to generate them. The third-party options for Power BI are clunky or broken, so this would be a game changer for us. Some ideas of features you might consider including (as other plotting tools do):

1. User-selectable box width
2. Grouped boxplots for side-by-side comparisons of distributions
3. Variable color based on underlying data
4. Toggle on/off display of mean, median. Also consider adding these (as a selectable option) to tooltips.
5. Allow for different, industry-standard options for calculating and plotting outliers.

[zwarren2]

This would be huge for me. An advanced version that I really find useful is to have a vertical histogram overlain showing the distribution of actual points. Jittering the actual points can work well, too.

[jschueller]

Would love to have a native version of this! I've come up with a very hacky way of doing it with reference lines and whatnot but it's nowhere near the polish of what a native visual would bring.